More awesome MRE photo's here.
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Chasing War, Draft #3 updated.
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Oh yeah, by the way, Stoploss Compensation Backpay has no timeline, and not a single claim has been paid. If anyone knows how to reach him, Major Roy Whitley commented in the article. That sounds like a real name, hopefully he isn't the Wizard of Oz standing behind the curtain of some fake process to stifle and temporarily quiet the growing number of stop lossed veterans making noise.
In unrelated news, Mrs. 13 plucked four whites from my head yesterday and another one today.
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According to the comments on http://moaablogs.org/financial/2009/06/stop-loss-pay-now-available/
some people have been paid. Mostly air force but i believe at least one person has recieved it from the army, and another one was already approved.
There have also been a few people who have supposedly spoken to whitley when they called the hotline number. Apparently there wasnt much information to be learned from phone calls but a little bit.
I don't really care much about the AF, and I don't believe that any of the Army has been paid (afterall, it IS the internet). Major Whitley commented on the 23rd, before Thanksgiving, and I doubt that workers were filing claims over the holiday. I expect Whitley to do what he can to deflect calls, and I suspect there are not yet any answers. Besides, if DFAS is handling the payments, then we'll see what happens on the 1st and the 15th. Perhaps by the 1st and 15th of January is a more likely scenario.
I'm number 230, and I filed my claim on the Pacific Coast night of the 20th. If those numbers correspond to order, I haven't heard anything say definitively yes or no.
You've earned those gray hairs. Anyway, they're not going to go away by plucking them out. That just pisses them off. Now they're gonna come back with their buddies. z
uh-oh.
Gray hairs and listening to PF. There's a morality play there somewhere:-)
You will probably sprouts a few more gray ones before the check arrives
louisa and hedgie
PF song is from my all time favorite album (oops i mean CD; we true grey-hairs remember albums)
L and H,
I still refer to those as "album's" as well. I grew up with tapes, and I wonder what the new kids call their digital downloads? They aren't CD's, but they ARE an album of material.
DSotM is still a masterpiece, but I'm partial to Animals.
Oh for Pete's sake.
Vegetarian MRE's!?!?
Cool link, thanks :-)
I'm commenting here for Chasing War because I don't sign in with the other stuff.
Chasing War is excellent. I don't really know what to say; I don't know enough about the mechanics of writing to comment on your writing style. Add to that I don't know how to match the writing to your experience; it's one that I will never have and I can't quantify the degree of overlap.
It's eye-opening without going for the sensational and feels authentic. It is quite challenging to read. The writing seems to mirror your own challenge in dealing with the reality. The reader is going to have to work for this one; which is as it sound be.
I do know it's very good, and I would gladly read more.
Is it potentially commercially successful style? I do not know. It's a big world, and somebody is bound to like it; I don't know how wide that niche will be or how to reach it. I'd certainly be happy if it has wide appeal, that would speak well for us.
I can only imagine what you young people who got caught up in this mess have to untangle. Gad. I have a lifetime of things to process, but at least everything didn't descend on me in a matter of a few years...
Keep it up, no matter what. All the best! z
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