Commander-in-Name-Only, and NOT Commander-in-Chief

I despise this Administration.

President Obama’s latest policy outrage makes no attempt to hide his contempt for our military, as he is ordering that our troops serving overseas in war zones overseas are not to receive combat pay unless they are being shot at.

The rules for Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger Pay have changed. Service members will now receive imminent danger pay only for days they actually spend in hazardous areas. This change went in effect on February 1, 2012.

A member of a uniformed service may be entitled to Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger pay at the rate of $225 for any month in which he/she was entitled to basic pay and in which he/she was:

•Subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;

•On duty in an area in which he was in imminent danger of being exposed to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines and in which, during the period he was on duty in that area, other members of the uniformed services were subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;

•Killed, injured, or wounded by hostile fire, explosion of a hostile mine, or any other hostile action; or

•On duty in a foreign area in which he was subject to the threat of physical harm or imminent danger on the basis of civil insurrection, civil war, terrorism, or wartime conditions.

In April 2008, my buddy from Loyola Law School, Major Stuart Wolfer, was killed by a rocket attack while in the supposedly "safe" Green Zone in Baghdad.  What wold happen today?  Would he even be classified as "killed in action" and given all honors of gratitude it should evoke, or simply labeled "collateral damage?"

 

Read that last bullet point - On duty in a foreign area in which he was subject to the threat of physical harm or imminent danger on the basis of civil insurrection, civil war, terrorism, or wartime conditions.  The last time I checked, we are NOT in Afghanistan as an army of occupation.  Our men and women there, even in the city limits of Kerachi, are truly "subject to the threat of physical harm or imminent danger." 

 

So to "save" money, a measly $225 each month will not be paid to troops overseas.  While the spending on entitlements grows.

 

Anyone who is active duty, retired, or former military - remember this in November.