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  As a guard member, I had to laugh at this one. No commute longer than 50 miles... every month I flew 2,000 miles and out of my own pocket as an E-5 with 12 years. Like I tell my supervisor, I do for the retirement and my country. Not to earn a pay check... will this motiviate me to stay in? Like it'll make a difference, now if Bush doesn't mess up the tax laws for traveling guardsmen.

  GovExec.com reader Posted June 8, 2005 3:25 AM
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  Stop whinining about these units being moved. You people are in the military and it is time you realized it. If you didn't want confusion, screw-ups, instant changes in your life, political decisions, etc., then you should not have joined up. The military is not for "cry-babies"...... They do not have to offer you or your family stability. They can screw up your life any time they want and it is legal so be it. STOP THAT INFERNAL WHINING. I HATE IT. GOOD JOB GOVEXEC.

  Charlie Posted May 25, 2005 7:17 PM
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  Explain to me how Rummy and Bush can justify moving a very functional admin reserve organization to one that doesn't have a clue what we do. We own the building/land at Marine Corps Mobilization Command in Kansas City MO. Our Command just spend about $35 to $40 Million upgrading our barracks and a security fence around the whole complex. We take care of over 75,000 Marines Careers, pay, life insurance, etc, cradle to grave for those Marines. They depend on us, while they are across the water fighting for someone else's freedom. But they want to shut us down and move us to Belle Chase Louisiana (a red state), where they will have to purchase land and build five new buildings to move us to that location. Where is that saving money???

  How do you think those Military Men/Women over there fighting for another countries freedom, while back home their loved ones are losing their jobs. And they are losing their drills sites,

  Congress, if you don't get anything right ever again, please get this right. Shut this down. Shut it down now, before all the mistakes have been made.

  God have mery on our soul!!!

  worker bee kc

  GovExec.com reader Posted May 19, 2005 7:57 AM
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  What sense does it make to take the airplanes away from trained pilots and mechanics at one Air National Guard unit and ship them off to another Air National Guard unit? What sense does it make to take those trained pilots and mechanics and give them "new jobs"? All of the services are having recruiting and retaining problems and now Rumsfeld wants to take some of the most highly trained and put them out of a job? It doesn't make sense.

  GovExec.com reader Posted May 18, 2005 9:32 AM
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  BRAC has nothing to do with fairness or even money. BRAC has everything to do with politics. Red states get and Blue states lose, that is what this is all about.

  When you have politcal hacks on the commission along with retired flag officers you get politics, not fairness.

  Of course there are those who believe this administration and that is a sad commentary.

  Shameful people

  GovExec.com reader Posted May 18, 2005 7:35 AM
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  You better believe the Navy should be concerned, but they are not, they are trying to get smaller, and this will only help them. The problem is that the genius admirals and SES'rs can't ever seem to look at the long term. They will shrink the reserve force, and then be in shock three or four years from now when they discover they have a serious manpower shortage, and they will blame the recruiters and the senior leadership. It is one thing to ask senior enlisted and officers to travel a distance for drill, but an E3 or E4 making perhaps $200 on a drill weekend, being asked to spend a quarter of that money on gasoline. Wake up you numbskulls, before it is too late!

  GovExec.com reader Posted May 17, 2005 5:26 PM