oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

I feel that somebody needs to address some of your crap in this post. You ask about Obama having a line item veto. That power has never belonged to our president and Obama doesn't have it either. I guess he did sign earlier laws that provided for Sequestration and things like that so maybe he is to blame more than you want

Maybe you didn't read this part of your link. dSequestration will also dictate the future end strength sizes for each force. The mandatory cuts instituted by the Budget Control Act will slash the military's budget unless Congress can again roll back the cuts to the Defense Department as it did this past year. Sequestration cuts are slated to resume in 2016.

Did you fail to read what my link said about the Navy raping parts off ships not being presently used, no matter why? Your kind wants to talk about air power of the Navy but just can't understand that that very raping is being done to keep some of the planes flying.

Lets give some consideration to the Obama "blow job" on the members of the Navy. You do know that all military services have had to accept those people who couldn't serve when "don't ask, don't tell" was still in effect. I am sure that you may find that many career military people would rather have what they had when they didn't have to serve with queers. I remember when just single queers were thrown out so that we didn't have to serve with them. The one who was removed from the Army and my detachment in Italy had to get his "kicks" outside the military and we were stationed in a heavily communist part of Italy. Obama has been responsible for much of this crap and you can't refute that, but try like hell.

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

The U.S. Military is not involved in humanitarian efforts,you must be thinking of another U.S. Milatary,spoken like a true communist.Way back to Vietnam I was involved in these efforts as a member of the U.S. Milatary and I am sure the efforts continue today unless Obama has made it a crime to help others.

jelun

Really, you stupid fool?

http://www.army.mil/humanitarian/
http://www.army.mil/article/13209/tripler-army-medical-center-humanitarian-mission/

As part of a humanitarian outreach program and the Pacific Command's (PACOM) mission to strengthen relationships and set conditions for regional security and prosperity, Tripler Army Medical Center sent specialized surgical teams to three Southeast Asia countries this year.

The Department of Defense has a large number of humanitarian programs ongoing worldwide ranging from medical missions to fresh water projects to building schools. TAMC is DoD's tertiary referral medical center for Asia and the Pacific and routinely provides medical support to humanitarian or disaster relief events in the region.

In many parts of developing Southeast Asia, health care access and capabilities are limited or too expensive preventing impoverished families from getting the health care they need. As a result, there is large demand for all types of medical services but in particular specialized care. Recognizing the need for specialty care, and the significant impact that disorders of vision, hearing loss, craniofacial abnormalities, and other conditions of the head and neck can have, a specialized team table to treat those disorders was assembled.

The mission teams were named Sight, Sound, and Smiles because they were designed to provide surgical treatment for vision loss, hearing loss, and craniofacial disorders (cleft lip and palate). The first Sight, Sound, Smiles mission took place in Bangladesh in 2007.

"The Sight, Sound, and Smile model allowed a much broader range of capabilities than we anticipated," said Lt. Col. Joseph Sniezek, chief of the Otolaryngology service, TAMC. "We knew we could treat vision loss from cataracts, hearing loss from chronic infections, cleft lips and palate, but the reality was we were able to treat most disorders of the head and neck."

The missions are part of the Peace through Health Care initiative, a congressional program designed to provide humanitarian assistance, improve medical readiness of US surgical staff, and increase the medical capacity of our host country colleagues.

Three surgical missions took place this year. Tripler physicians' and AAOHNS members planned, coordinated and led the teams: Lt. Col. Scott Roofe led the team to Kuantan, Malaysia; Lt. Col. Christopher Klem and Lt. Col. Benjamin Cable co-led the team to Bogra, Bangladesh, and Lt. Col. Joseph Sniezek and Lt. Col. Mitchell Ramsey co-led the team to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

All three missions had similar goals -- to provide free surgical care to impoverished civilians, provide training and education, and build health care capacity. Every mission included otolaryngology residents who were largely responsible for much of the organization, planning and execution.
http://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.projecthope.org/where-we-work/humanitarian-missions/?referrer=http://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/

So I concentrated on the Army and the Navy as I have a soft spot for those agencies.
The USMC was involved in Iraq with winning hearts and minds...I know it might be hard to make the connection for brainless haters, however... heart and mind...heart and mind....

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

Hey jackass,you said in response to Tugboat "I can't imagine that he is involved in humanitarian efforts,the U.S.Military NEVER does that"this was on the previous page of this topic.You are so stupid that you can't even remember You're comments just a short time ago, asshole.

jelun

That you are too dense to recognize sarcasm is not really my problem.

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

You wrote it now own it dumbass.

jasfourth401

Any department of government that received almost 5 trillion in tax payer money during the current administration, and now cries poor, has an internal management problem. This is all on the DOD. It's a disgrace.

jelun

You certainly can divulge that your nephew is not in battles in Jordan.
You must think it is 2003, that is when our troops didn't have proper equipment.

jelun

I am not sure, jasfourth401, that the DOD is crying poor. I think it is a certain manipulative arm of the media feeding the gullible what they want to hear.

atc333

This is nothing but the consequence of tax cuts for job creators, funded by cuts in all areas of the Government. If you are not happy about it contact your Right Wing Congressman to increase the tax rate on the top 2%, who have benefited by over 14 Trillion dollars in Tax cuts since Reagan which went in their pockets. There is the problem. Obama can request a budget, but Congress sets it, Obama can request more money for the Navy, for defense, for new weapons systems, but the House determines the amount, and adds or subtracts from it, and votes to set the tax rates, including subsidies, credits, exclusions, and deferments. This is why some corporations pay 0% taxes, and although the GOP loves to complain the US has one of the highest corporate tax rates, the reality is after all the loopholes created by Congress for its major contributors are applied, almost a third of US Corporations pay 0%, or very little.

If you don't like what you see, including crumbling infrastructure, shrinking navy, aging equipment, call your Right Wing Congressman, or better yet, vote him or her out of office, and put in a representative who actually puts this nation, and its people first.
By the way, those cuts didn't create jobs, just more wealth for the job creators, and more income inequity between the haves and have nots.

Obama didn't create this mess, the GOP did.

robmull Loc: florida

Most of the low-information useful-idiot "demonrats," roy, have NO idea what a "caliphate" is; they just want their FREE stuff from Bernie; or Hillary; or "HBH," if he can pull-it-off. Goooooooo Welfare, free medical, education, housing, transportation and SNAP!!! God - woops - Damn it's great to be an anti-American in America these days!!! POTUS, here I come!!! Hummmmmmmmmmm. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUMP!!!

robmull Loc: florida

And that's not even to mention the trillions - with a "T," TRILLION$ of dollar$ worth of transferred military equipment, first in Benghazi, and then directly to ISIS in Iraq, where it all could be used right-on-site to re-take Iraq from the American "Imperialists;" [who had all just be rapidly transported OUT]; the latest technologically advanced American tanks, halftracks, troop transporters, armored jeeps and Humvees, with the usual [Benghazi] advanced American automatic weaponry, ammunitions and explosives; that weapons "exchanges" [in Benghazi] were now [because of the necessary high-level assassinations for secrecy] just much too-hot to handle. Hummmmmmmmmmmmmm GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUMP!!!

jasfourth401

The DOD always cries poor. The most classic examples were the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I don't think the public understands that DOD didn't spend a dime for those wars. The money came from the "Overseas Contingency Operations" account. And all that did was put 2 trillion on this country's credit card that we now pay carry forward interest on and that jacked the debt up by 3 trillion in overall exposure. Now add on the 5 trillion we've spent for BAU (business as usual) for "regular" military spending under Obama and you're talking real money.

tugboat

He's not gonna be in Jordan all the time.They do missions and go back to Jordan. Really?Don't you have common sense? Wasn't there articles recently that the Navy said they were running out of bombs?To my knowledge bombs are equipment that's pretty important.

littlebit

Easy solution.

Get rid of the freeloaders i.e. the illegal aliens, they cost us billions and billions a year. Get rid of the Muslims that don't belong in United States in the first place(Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952 ,Flashback: President Jimmy Carter Banned Iranians From U.S. Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fbig-government%2F2015%2F12%2F09%2Fflashback-president-jimmy-carter-banned-iranians-u-s%2F&usg=AFQjCNGmX2gvs59wJrjvAgWw-yDp5ZwPag&sig2=uBpGQYWI-86DL-cgnvh9ww&bvm=bv.123325700,d.cGc Which were Muslims'' ) because in the Koran it says that there is no higher law than sharia and that's, over our Constitution.