Taking blame-the-victim to a whole other degree, re-enlistment bonuses apparently are strictly performance-based. No excuses, like, oh, I don't know, getting caught in a roadside/IED blast, losing an eye, and injuring your back.
This from an Administration that somehow can't find money in an almost $500 billion dollar defense budget to pay for war.
Oh, and if anyone took a listen to NPR earlier today, you might have heard that GI Benefits--an exceedingly small token of appreciation offered to those who've given so much--are being nickel and dimed as well by this administration...for instance, money for college now MUST be matched by the individual soldier via payroll deductions if he or she is a reservist.
Just wait...before long, wingnuts will be petulantly bitching about soldiers who don't have "the courtesy" to get killed before their enlistments are up...
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