Department of the Navy Response to Sequestration

3.E.  CEASE NEW USMC ENROLLMENTS IN VOLUNTARY EDUCATION TUITION ASSISTANCE;

If you were wondering how it effects me, this is how. I can’t get money to get my masters (while I’m active duty; GI Bills are unaffected) and more importantly my Marines, all of whom aspire to earn an undergrad degree, can not get money to pay for classes. Some of them are currently taking classes online at night during our deployment and will not be able to continue next semester because of this cut that is recommended by the Honorable Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy, and only affects Marines.


USA Today is the only mainstream news source to pick this up.

http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2013/03/02/department-of-the-navy-response-to-sequestration/

2 months ago
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He was in Afghanistan and his hours were better than mine

From this article about the hours people in production work. I find my deployed hours are pretty comparable; 12 hours is perfectly normal, 14 is fine, 24 is possible, my buddy did 40 the other day, but it doesn’t beat me down the way it did in production.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/how-long-are-the-days-on-a-movie-set-polone.html

2 months ago

eighty miles an hour with a worn out map

Drive-By Truckers - Righteous Path

(Source: detoxalmighty)

2 months ago

Veterans Affairs Hires 27,000 Additional Workers To Procrastinate, Collect Paycheck

This is a military news source that takes a page out of the Onion, just to dilute the influx of depressing articles.

2 months ago
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The implicit message — what the Marine Corps reveals by its actions — is that it’s okay to fail to provide any added value, so long as the PowerPoint slides are free of typos, no serialized gear is lost, and everyone attends the Sexual Harassment Prevention training

We’re getting out of the Marines because we wanted to be part of an elite force

Unfortunately, this guy is right. I have seen elements of what I was looking for when I joined, but when the focus becomes making sure the CO’s slides are printed in color, despite the fact that your battalion doesn’t have a color printer, something is wrong.

I realize that I’m just a lieutenant reading another lieutenant ‘s rant, but I’m sharing it because this is the sentiment among some lieutenants. What I mean is that this guy isn’t alone.

2 months ago
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You can fly in a helicopter around Baghdad and other cities, but you cannot point a finger to a single project that was built and completed by the United States.

Adnan al-Asadi, Iraq’s acting minister of the interior, in the latest report from the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.
 (via washingtonpoststyle)

Where have I seen this?

(via washingtonpoststyle)

2 months ago
tlcplmax: True story.

tlcplmax:

True story.

2 months ago
In Afghanistan, nobody celebrates President’s Day, for obvious reasons. They do have a long weekend around the same time though, in celebration of defeating the Russians.

In Afghanistan, nobody celebrates President’s Day, for obvious reasons.


They do have a long weekend around the same time though, in celebration of defeating the Russians.

3 months ago

#SOLDIERPORN: Congress needs to remove head from anal tract.

soldierporn:

(Official article title: Sequestration Could Delay Redeployment for Soldiers in Afghanistan)

(Article by C. Todd Lopez of Army News Service, 15 FEB 2013. Source.)

WASHINGTON - The lack of an appropriations bill coupled with sequestration could eventually cause soldiers to be delayed in their…

I can only speak for the Marine Corps, and even then some Marines won’t agree with me, but we’ll stay longer or we’ll go home early, and we’ll be ready for the next conflict the next day. That’s just how we do business. We signed up for it and everyone knew it wasn’t summer camp when they shuffled off the bus. But it sure would be nice if elected officials stayed clear of veterans benefits; we’ll write the “blank check,” but we’d appreciate being treated decently when it’s all said and done.

3 months ago
tlcplmax: A new series I’m working on. Looks good so far

tlcplmax:

A new series I’m working on.

Looks good so far

3 months ago