Herbert: An Insult to Our Soldiers (National Guard Pay System Fubars)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/opinion/15HERB.html?hp

Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican, is chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform. He tells a story about Sgt. Daniel Romero of the Colorado Army National Guard, who was sent to fight in Afghanistan.

In a letter dated March 23, 2002, Sergeant Romero asked a fellow sergeant: "Are they really fixing pay issues are they putting them off until we return? If they are waiting, then what happens to those who (God forbid) don't make it back?"

As Mr. Davis said at a hearing this past January, "Sergeant Romero was killed in action in Afghanistan in April 2002." The congressman added, "I would really like to hear today that his family isn't wasting their time and energy fixing errors in his pay."

As we mobilize troops from around the country and send them off to fight and possibly die in that crucible of terror known as combat, is it too much to ask that they be paid in a timely way?

[democrat99]

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