_Gronk_ posted:

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Please tell us how all the above people who are concerned about the changes are uneducated rubes also, Tali.

Dumbass.

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Taliesihne posted:

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That's easy. Your link is shite and full of lies. The whole thing is to be disbelieved.

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NAVY TIMES posted:

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The nation’s largest veterans group and the biggest association for military officers wasted no time launching complaints about the 2013 defense budget unveiled on Monday.


The 2.4 million-member American Legion says the budget’s proposals to raise health care fees for retirees and create a commission to study ways to reduce military retirement costs break promises to current service members and send a bad message to future troops.


“By increasing, and in some cases quadrupling, health insurance fees for military retirees, you are sending a powerful message to those in uniform and to their families that their decades of service and sacrifice are unappreciated,” said Fang Wong, the the Legion’s national commander, of the Pentagon’s plans for higher Tricare fees for working-age retirees.


While Pentagon officials have promised that any potential changes in retired pay would not apply to current service members, Wong said that doesn’t make it a good idea for the military. “Grandfathering benefits cuts merely tells tomorrow’s veterans that their service isn’t as valuable as those who served before them,” Wong said.


The president of the Military Officers Association of America called the proposed Tricare fee increases a “breach of faith” and accused the Pentagon of using “bait and switch” tactics because modest increases were approved last year and were believed to be the final word on changes.'

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