Yes I understand that we were talking about advancement, and that's why I couldn't understand your asinine post. You couldn't help yourself and had to take a shot at the Republicans when the conversation was anything but political. Tom calls you on it before I had a chance to post and there you go with the whole song and dance about the injured troops and all, and play the emotion card. Slick move. So my question to you now is, who authorizes these huge re-enlistment bonuses for retention? Someone has to authorize it, so is it only the smart non-weapons systems Democrats that have the foresight in this matter?
I don't know why I'm even going to bring this up, but what the fudge... My father was discharged in 1965 from the Air Force at the age of 27 for a heart condition he developed while on active duty. Seems he had an infection while stationed in Spain that left scar tissue on his aortic valve. From that point on it only closed 3/4 of the way until he had it replaced with an artifical valve in 1986. He got the run around way back then as well, but since my grandfather was an MD my father fought it and received full retirement benefits from then on. 1965... whose watch was that on, and what war were we fighting then? The point is, this sh-- has been going on forever and to flat out slander the Republicans like you chose to do is wrong. No biggie, you're just misinformed, and there's no harm in that.
And by the way, you weren't scoring points with me earlier, I was referring to the other guys. Well except for VABills as I think he was only in this thread to pump himself up and try to impress the rest of us...