Troops getting gear from charity as U.S. military braces for budget cuts

[fgarvb1]

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned this week that looming military spending cuts “will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force.”

The caution comes as no surprise to Aaron Negherbon, whose nonprofit helps soldiers circumvent government fiscal challenges and red tape to get critical equipment to combat troops.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...arity-u-military-braces-budget-165300942.html

 

[Tryharder62]

Just makes you sick.

 

[mercury14]

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned this week that looming military spending cuts “will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force.”

The caution comes as no surprise to Aaron Negherbon, whose nonprofit helps soldiers circumvent government fiscal challenges and red tape to get critical equipment to combat troops.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...arity-u-military-braces-budget-165300942.html

With the sequester military spending will revert back to 2006 levels and will then increase again.

 

[WeedSmoke420]

Just makes you sick.

word...

 

[hogjack]

The US Military is FATTER than a pale, video-game playing middle schooler.

Typical government entity run by leaders who want more, more, more to sustain their own jobs and influence.

 

[WeedSmoke420]

 

[BotanyBoy]

No armor in 2001-3 either...we had plenty for a while...now they are running out?

We can build uber tanks, subs and stealth fighters none of which we need....but we can't get body armor for the boots on ground? Unreal....

It's all about getting that MIC it's welfare contracts...don't ruin those...and for god's sake don't end the gravy train war like you said you would 5 fucking years ago you piece of shit........no cut body armor instead....

Our government is of the foulest sort.....I feel ashamed and dirty to be an american when I read about shit like this.

 

[hogjack]

I feel ashamed and dirty to be an american when I read about shit like this.

Renounce your citizenship.

 

[unregistered]

 

[eyer]

I once read an account about a 16-year old kid who served in the Revolutionary War, even spent that terribly spartan winter with George @ Valley Forge, though he was hardly among the youngest rebels. Anyway, what struck me most in the account were the words of a Captain (I believe) about the rebels trek through that Christmas night on their way to the pivotal surprise attack on Trenton...

...some of them, he wrote, didn't even have shoes, and you could see the blood trails left behind from their wrapped-up feet.

But their spirit of cause lifted them above such horrid conditions and their quest for liberty was too great to be denied because of such harshness.

I have that narrative recorded in some digital files I've had to leave behind, and the few times I've searched for that account online since then I have been unsuccessful...

...but, Lord, it is one of the most moving renditions I've ever read of Patriots who put the cause of individual liberty about all else - and taste victory.

 

[KRCummings]

I once read an account about a 16-year old kid who served in the Revolutionary War, even spent that terribly spartan winter with George @ Valley Forge, though he was hardly among the youngest rebels. Anyway, what struck me most in the account were the words of a Captain (I believe) about the rebels trek through that Christmas night on their way to the pivotal surprise attack on Trenton...

...some of them, he wrote, didn't even have shoes, and you could see the blood trails left behind from their wrapped-up feet.

But their spirit of cause lifted them above such horrid conditions and their quest for liberty was too great to be denied because of such harshness.

I have that narrative recorded in some digital files I've had to leave behind, and the few times I've searched for that account online since then I have been unsuccessful...

...but, Lord, it is one of the most moving renditions I've ever read of Patriots who put the cause of individual liberty about all else - and taste victory.

The attack on the Hessians at Trenton was in 1776. The winter at Valley Forge was 1777-1778.

 

[the_kuntess]

No armor in 2001-3 either...we had plenty for a while...now they are running out?

We can build uber tanks, subs and stealth fighters none of which we need....but we can't get body armor for the boots on ground? Unreal....

It's all about getting that MIC it's welfare contracts...don't ruin those...and for god's sake don't end the gravy train war like you said you would 5 fucking years ago you piece of shit........no cut body armor instead....

Our government is of the foulest sort.....I feel ashamed and dirty to be an american when I read about shit like this.

What's probably worse is that you can make it to sell to some other country.

 

[1sickbastard]

No armor in 2001-3 either...we had plenty for a while...now they are running out?

We can build uber tanks, subs and stealth fighters none of which we need....but we can't get body armor for the boots on ground? Unreal....

It's all about getting that MIC it's welfare contracts...don't ruin those...and for god's sake don't end the gravy train war like you said you would 5 fucking years ago you piece of shit........no cut body armor instead....

Our government is of the foulest sort.....I feel ashamed and dirty to be an american when I read about shit like this.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under~HL Mencken

 

[eyer]

The attack on the Hessians at Trenton was in 1776. The winter at Valley Forge was 1777-1778.

that "attack on the Hessians at Trenton was in 1776." that "winter at Valley Forge was 1777-1778"...

...and your point is?

 

[dan_c00000]

The US Military is FATTER than a pale, video-game playing middle schooler.

Typical government entity run by leaders who want more, more, more to sustain their own jobs and influence.

Typical business. Always out trying to steal medical supplies and dollars from hardworking people.

Get a clue. Go look up and see how much money your buddy Bush gave to Halliburton, KBR, and Blackwater/Xe.

Oh yeah there's also more contractors in Iraq/Afghanistan than actual troops.

 

[hogjack]

Oh yeah there's also more contractors in Iraq/Afghanistan than actual troops.

Good. Contractors are the heart-and-soul of the American economic machine.

Next up: Rebuilding Iran after it gets blowed up real good.

 

[koalabear]

Perfect example of why citizens should be able to have "military" weapons, you may have to loan them to the military.