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Like every combat veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the former SEAL, who is identified in the story only as the Shooter, is automatically eligible for five years of free health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Misinformation like this doesnt help veterans, Brandon Friedman, a former VA public affairs officer told Stars & Stripes.
Time for some hard truth...........
Like every combat veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the former SEAL, who is identified in the story only as the Shooter, is automatically eligible for five years of free health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Misinformation like this doesnt help veterans, Brandon Friedman, a former VA public affairs officer told Stars & Stripes.
Esquire?s SEAL story questioned by some vets | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
He's a vet, he should be able to get treated indefinently.
How about we don't raise taxes and cut off the welfare for those 6'3" ex cons who buffed up in the prison gym instead? We could also take money from programs that put shrimp on treadmills to see how fast they run. How about we CUT taxes and force the government to prioritize what funds they are left with? What's more important, the VA or NPR?
So you're desire to help ends at the point it costs you something. I guess we've forgotten the poor guy already.
Prioritizing financial expenditures is something everyone does every day. When you know you have to pay the rent, do you blow the rent money on dinner out? No. You pay the rent. obama's government doesn't correctly set its priorities. We are NOT helping veterans by studying the sex habits of prostitutes in China.
Would you end any of these government programs to help veterans?
#1 The U.S. government is spending $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
#2 The Obama administration plans to spend between 16 and 20 million dollars helping students from Indonesia get masters degrees.
#3 If you can believe it, the U.S. government has spent $175,587 to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior.
#4 The U.S. government spent $200,000 on a tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, California.
#5 The federal government has shelled out $3 million to researchers at the University of California at Irvine to fund their research on video games such as World of Warcraft. Wouldnt we all love to have a research job like that?
#6 The Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend $500 million on a program that will, among other things, seek to solve the problem of 5-year-old children that cant sit still in a kindergarten classroom.
#7 Fannie Mae is about to ask the federal government for another $4.6 billion bailout, and it will almost certainly get it.
#8 The federal government once spent 30 million dollars on a program that was designed to help Pakistani farmers produce more mangos.
#9 The U.S. Department of Agriculture once gave researchers at the University of New Hampshire $700,000 to study methane gas emissions from dairy cows.
#10 According to USA Today, 13 different government agencies fund 209 different science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programs and 173 of those programs overlap with at least one other program.
#11 A total of $615,000 was given to the University of California at Santa Cruz to digitize photos, T-shirts and concert tickets belonging to the Grateful Dead.
#12 China lends us more money than any other foreign nation, but that didnt stop our government from spending 17.8 million dollars on social and environmental programs for China.
#13 The U.S. government once spent 2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.
#14 One professor at Stanford University was given $239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love.
#15 The U.S. Postal Service spent $13,500 on a single dinner at Ruths Chris Steakhouse.
#16 The National Science Foundation once spent $216,000 to study whether or not politicians gain or lose support by taking ambiguous positions.
#17 A total of $1.8 million was spent on a museum of neon signs in Las Vegas, Nevada.
#18 The federal government spends 25 billion dollars a year maintaining federal buildings that are either unused or totally vacant.
#19 U.S. farmers are given a total of $2 billion each year for not farming their land.
#20 The U.S. government handed one Tennessee library $5,000 for the purpose of hosting a series of video game parties.
#21 A few years ago the government spent $123,050 on a Mothers Day Shrine in Grafton, West Virginia. It turns out that Grafton only has a population of a little more than 5,000 people.
#22 One professor at Dartmouth University was given $137,530 to create a recession-themed video game entitled Layoff.
#23 According to the Heritage Foundation, the U.S. military spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida.
#24 The U.S. Department of Agriculture once shelled out $30,000 to a group of farmers to develop a tourist-friendly database of farms that host guests for overnight haycations.
#25 The National Institutes of Health paid researchers $400,000 to find out why gay men in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk.
#26 The National Institutes of Health also once spent $442,340 to study the behavior of male prostitutes in Vietnam.
#27 The National Institutes of Health loves to spend our tax money on really bizarre things. The NIH once spent $800,000 in stimulus funds to study the impact of a genital-washing program on men in South Africa.
#28 According to the Washington Post, 1,271 different government organizations work on government programs related to counterterrorism and homeland security.
#29 The U.S. government spent $100,000 on a Celebrity Chef Fruit Promotion Road Show in Indonesia.
#30 The feds once gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 to paint a Chinook salmon on the side of a Boeing 737.
Time for some hard truth...........
Like every combat veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the former SEAL, who is identified in the story only as the Shooter, is automatically eligible for five years of free health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Misinformation like this doesnt help veterans, Brandon Friedman, a former VA public affairs officer told Stars & Stripes.
Esquire?s SEAL story questioned by some vets | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
He's eligable for 5 years of care at the VA, but what if his injuries are permanent?
Btw, 5 years comes and goes quickly. Especially when the waiting list for treatment is 6-18 months.
Cutting Retiree Benefits A Sore Subject For Military : NPR
Military retiree benefits cost the Pentagon $50 billion a year. That's more than next year's entire budget for the Department of Homeland Security. There are 1.9 million military retirees drawing pay and benefits, compared to 1.5 million in the active duty force. In 2010, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates said those costs are "eating the Defense Department alive."
Was the Seal forced out of the Navy 36 months before he could receive his retirement bennies? Who in their right mind would voluntarily leave the Service 3 years before retirement, especially in a highly motivated unit like the Seals? He needs to get a lawyer and sue for maybe PTSS disability retirement.
Taking more of the hard working tax payer money? He resigned. Get the fuck over your self, man.
If you really want to know what Obama thinks of SEALs, he dipped the flag, put it at half mast for Whitney Houston but not for any of the SEAL team Six members that have died. He wouldn't do it for Chris Kyle. But he did it for a crackhead
If you really want to know what Obama thinks of SEALs, he dipped the flag, put it at half mast for Whitney Houston but not for any of the SEAL team Six members that have died. He wouldn't do it for Chris Kyle. But he did it for a crackhead
More manufactured bullshit!
Obama did not lower the flag to half mast for Whitney Houston.
New Jersey's Republican Governor did. And he also puts the flag at half mast for every New Jersey soldier who is KIA.
Dipshit.
Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden left in poverty with no pension, healthcare or protection ? RT
Remember the speach Obama gave that he would stand by our heroes. Again, another lie from Obama
President Obama Honors Veterans - YouTube
Yet in Washington they only have to serve 6 years to get full benefits and pay.. So yeah. How fair is that. If Obama wants to be fair just change some of those rules huh.
would you like Obama to CHANGE THE LAW of the land and make an exception for this man via EXECUTIVE ORDER?Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden left in poverty with no pension, healthcare or protection ? RT
Remember the speach Obama gave that he would stand by our heroes. Again, another lie from Obama
President Obama Honors Veterans - YouTube
Yet in Washington they only have to serve 6 years to get full benefits and pay.. So yeah. How fair is that. If Obama wants to be fair just change some of those rules huh.
If you really want to know what Obama thinks of SEALs, he dipped the flag, put it at half mast for Whitney Houston but not for any of the SEAL team Six members that have died. He wouldn't do it for Chris Kyle. But he did it for a crackhead
If you really want to know what Obama thinks of SEALs, he dipped the flag, put it at half mast for Whitney Houston but not for any of the SEAL team Six members that have died. He wouldn't do it for Chris Kyle. But he did it for a crackhead
More manufactured bullshit!
Obama did not lower the flag to half mast for Whitney Houston.
New Jersey's Republican Governor did. And he also puts the flag at half mast for every New Jersey soldier who is KIA.
Dipshit.
