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Originally posted by mrmitchell
How can the DoD justify this kind of thing with their huge budget increases every year?
How can the DoD justify this kind of thing with their huge budget increases every year?
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Ole Rummy is really big into the whole "transformation" schtick. Plus that whole high Ops Tempo in places where' we're getting shot at has drained money.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring. -
The tone of the article really turned me off.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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How should it have been written, as a press release from the DoD praising Rummy for the great things he's doing for America?
Rummy really turns me off.When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."Comment
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Well, the lead was that since soldiers were deployed, no changes could even be contemplated. This doesn't seem right, since the business of the DoD continues on despite deployment.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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The business of the DoD continues on, but (a) this is a massive deployment, on a scale of time that we haven't seen since you know where (yeah, we had a lot more in GW I, but many were late rotating in, and early rotating out), and (b) given the scale of the DoD budget, there's no need to really touch quality of life and dependent issues right now. If anything, DoD should be looking at improving the lot of serving personnel on every level.
That was among many things that convinced me to never be a lifer, and the vast majority of the people I knew as well.When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."Comment
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Why would dealing with these issues preclude increasing the quality of life of the troops?
Anyway, the article spends the first third slagging the Bush administration without dealing with why these parents want to keep the DoD schools--that they are of generally higher quality than their civilian public counterparts. It's just a bull**** way of going about writing an article.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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