National Guard Soldiers, Airmen to be Furloughed

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KAPOLEI, Hawaii - More than 1,100 National Guard soldiers and airmen in Hawaii - and thousands in other states - will be living with 20 percent less pay over the next three months as the Defense Department carries out automatic federal budget cuts.

Guard members will be furloughed for one day a week starting Monday, so helicopter pilots and mechanics, pay and finance clerks and others who keep the guard operating will have eight hours less each week to do their jobs.

It's not clear precisely what effects the unprecedented cuts will have. They could, however, make it more difficult for the guard to fly helicopters to help put out wildfires or rush to the scene of natural disasters in trucks.


"Our general sense is that short-term, it's going to be a terrible hardship for those soldiers, airmen and their families. But if it goes on for any length of time, that may have a negative impact on our readiness and our ability to respond," said Hawaii National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Chuck Anthony.
http://m.military.com/daily-news/201...urloughed.html

[recon]

Not a good thing to happen.

[Diesel]

It's all about that damn queer niqqer in our White House, again! He's scared to death of US all and especially the military and everything abut any entity in the nation that can resist his crap...I never thought I'd see a worse president than Jimmy Carter... but, here we have it in our POTUS and it will only get worse as he gets closer to the muslims and their dreams of a great caliph ruled by perverts, murderers, rapist and child molesters!

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[jojo]

It's so we can keep pumping billions to the Muslim Brotherhood. If we are struggling this much as a nation then then how can our Representatives eve be contemplating the monstrosity of Obamacare.

[samiam]

Guard members will be furloughed for one day a week starting Monday

Every weekend a 3 day weekend . . . could be a great recruting program

[5.56NATO]

Meanwhile Vacationeer in Chief Benghazi Fastandfurious goes about on AF1, spending 100M a pop, to tell Africans they can't have electricity or air conditioning or ipads. He, of course, can have all those things, and the 100 million dollar vacations at taxpayer expense. What a great unhypocritical example he is for all of us.