From MOAA’s Website. This organization accomplishes more for our military service men and women than any other. It used to be called TROA (The Retired Officer’s Association), but changed their name to include all officers not just retired. I have been a life member since I retired and I use their site to contact my representatives almost weekly. Lindsey Graham has always been a champion of our military men and women; one of the few I would not classify as a RINO. As you read this, ask yourself, just whose side are the service chiefs on? I really can’t answer that myself. They must be drinking Attorney General Lynch’s brew — ya think?

March 11, 2016

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday, Personnel Subcommittee chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told service chiefs he’s not happy DoD is proposing yet another reduced military pay raise for 2017.

“For the last three years, this administration has failed to allow service members’ pay to keep up with the private sector wage growth,” said Graham. “This is the fourth year in a row where the department is short-changing service members.”

The proposed 1.6 percent pay raise is being touted by DoD as the largest raise in the last four years. However, it is still below the average American’s 2.1 percent raise, as measured by the Employment Cost Index (ECI). If Congress doesn’t reject the Pentagon proposal, the cumulative four-year pay gap will increase to 3.1 percent.

Graham also took issue with the Pentagon’s proposal to make changes to the new blended retirement system scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2018 for new entrants.

Under current law, the new system cuts military retired pay by 20 percent, but provides up to a 5 percent government match to service members’ deposits in federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) accounts. Government matching begins when a service member reaches three years of service. DoD’s budget proposes delaying government matching until the fifth year of service.

This proposal directly counters one of the main reasons why Congress originally approved the change to retirement: to provide a retirement benefit to more service members, especially the majority who do not stay for twenty years.

“Let me be clear. It is our commitment to the many service members who go out on deployment before reaching their fifth year of service that they, too, have earned some retirement,” said Graham.

MOAA agrees with Sen. Graham’s concern on both the pay raise and TSP matching issues.

– See more at: http://www.moaa.org/Content/Take-Action/Top-Issues/Currently-Serving/Lawmaker-Blasts-Plan-to-Cap-Military-Pay-Raise.aspx#sthash.H6OaWGTn.dpuf

Originally posted 2016-03-12 11:18:45.

Another verity from the Colonel of Truth. If only there was a way to ensure this lady reads it, but then . . . . what would she do differently? She is not just a Kool Aid drinker, she’s the brew master.

In God We Trust

Attorney General Lynch,

Recent interviews (of you) concerning the investigation into the private email server, reckless handling of America’s secrets by then sitting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and more, I’ve seen. And pondered.

Your facial expressions, body language, and elusive and sometimes curt sounding answers to questions cause wonder and concern.

Mrs. Clinton, on the campaign trail, has repeatedly said, “No bank too big to fail. No executive too powerful to jail.”

How remarkable – she is capable of uttering a truth.

As you are surely familiar, following is the Mission Statement posted on The United States Department of Justice website:

To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.

Though searching exhaustively elsewhere on the website, I found no exemption to compliance with law for anyone named Clinton, nor any other surname, nor anyone running for elected office to include the presidency.

Mrs. Clinton’s truth aside and considering your department’s mission but three words guide you carrying out your responsibilities: Sworn. Oath. Duty.

To those obligations, I add three words, three standards of personal behavior and conduct, that guide U. S. Marines (and Sailors): Honor. Courage. Commitment. These Core Values, in complement (to sworn duty), make for good order.

A thought from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

You, Madam, are anywhere. We, your countrymen, everywhere, are watching.

In closing, Madam Attorney General, see to justice; and in all that implies to include timeliness.

Thank you for your service to country.

Sincerely,

A. F. Weddington
U. S. Marine (Retired)

Originally posted 2016-03-12 10:45:44.

Look closely at the photo. It is of people walking to reach their final objective, to live in a European country.

I guess most viewers simply see eight people and three children hopefully making their way to a better life.

But, let’s take a closer look,  there are seven men, one woman, and three small children. Up to this point– nothing special.

Looking even closer you will notice that the woman is bare foot, accompanied by three children, and of the three, she is carrying two of them. The problem is simple, none of these men are helping her, because in their culture the woman represents nothing. She is only good to be a slave to the men.

Do you really believe that these individuals could assimilate into our society and respect our customs and traditions? I think not.

Originally posted 2016-03-11 11:31:42.