Tinseltown's GIs Snub A Real-Life Private Ryan

[Jim]

The Hill
May 7, 2008
Tinseltown's GIs Snub A Real-Life Private Ryan
By Susan Crabtree
The stars of “Saving Private Ryanâ€

[rgrpuck]

Did anyone expect any different?

[Jim]

Did anyone expect any different?

Just to remind you that Tom Hanks is an honorary membe of the Ranger Hall of Fame (RHOF).

[rgrpuck]

Did anyone expect any different?

Just to remind you that Tom Hanks is an honorary membe of the Ranger Hall of Fame (RHOF).

True ....but Strom Thurmund was inducted ....he was in the 325 in the 82nd in WWII as a JAG.....Never a Ranger at all.

and if I remember Hanks didnt bother to show up.

Hollywood isnt going to do anything that would look like it is helping the military....

[Silverback]

Nunes’s Hubbard Act will provide continued benefits for any member of the armed forces who decides to leave the military after losing a family member. Specifically, it guarantees unemployment compensation, as well as payment for transitional healthcare and commissary and exchange benefits, as well as veterans’ benefits. These benefits would apply even if the soldier had not completed the years of service as agreed upon at enlistment.

In addition, these soldiers would not be forced to repay any portion of their enlistment bonus and may participate in the GI bill’s education benefits.

Some of the points of this program elude me.

1. Unemployment compensation is a state matter,
2. The GI bill is based off of the money you put into it during your service
3. Enlistment bonuses are paid with the intent of you finishing your contractual obligation.

This young man made a choice (as was his right). Now it seems he has found a sympathetic ear(s) to try and recoup some of the benefits he KNOWINGLY forfeited by his election to terminate his service prematurely.

I don't get it.

Wait...I am supposed to say something bad about Hollywood aren't I?

[Horned Toad]

Did anyone expect any different?

Just to remind you that Tom Hanks is an honorary membe of the Ranger Hall of Fame (RHOF).

What a waste of a spot especially after he had time to post a youtube video saying how he thinks Obama is the shit

[rgrpuck]

Nunes’s Hubbard Act will provide continued benefits for any member of the armed forces who decides to leave the military after losing a family member. Specifically, it guarantees unemployment compensation, as well as payment for transitional healthcare and commissary and exchange benefits, as well as veterans’ benefits. These benefits would apply even if the soldier had not completed the years of service as agreed upon at enlistment.

In addition, these soldiers would not be forced to repay any portion of their enlistment bonus and may participate in the GI bill’s education benefits.

Some of the points of this program elude me.

1. Unemployment compensation is a state matter,
2. The GI bill is based off of the money you put into it during your service
3. Enlistment bonuses are paid with the intent of you finishing your contractual obligation.

This young man made a choice (as was his right). Now it seems he has found a sympathetic ear(s) to try and recoup some of the benefits he KNOWINGLY forfeited by his election to terminate his service prematurely.

I don't get it.

Wait...I am supposed to say something bad about Hollywood aren't I?

Just watching the band wagon roll by huh SB?

[Silverback]

Nunes’s Hubbard Act will provide continued benefits for any member of the armed forces who decides to leave the military after losing a family member. Specifically, it guarantees unemployment compensation, as well as payment for transitional healthcare and commissary and exchange benefits, as well as veterans’ benefits. These benefits would apply even if the soldier had not completed the years of service as agreed upon at enlistment.

In addition, these soldiers would not be forced to repay any portion of their enlistment bonus and may participate in the GI bill’s education benefits.

Some of the points of this program elude me.

1. Unemployment compensation is a state matter,
2. The GI bill is based off of the money you put into it during your service
3. Enlistment bonuses are paid with the intent of you finishing your contractual obligation.

This young man made a choice (as was his right). Now it seems he has found a sympathetic ear(s) to try and recoup some of the benefits he KNOWINGLY forfeited by his election to terminate his service prematurely.

I don't get it.

Wait...I am supposed to say something bad about Hollywood aren't I?

Just watching the band wagon roll by huh SB?

Brother,
I just get sick and fucking tired of Joe's continually asking for an "Exception to policy". What sickens me more is that each deal like this isn't done for the good of the individual, it's a larger plan plan of the liberals to keep pushing the "They aren't caring for our Soldiers" message.

Truth be told, it's a shame he lost his Brothers and I do honor his family's sacrifice, but you know as well as I do that before that kid separated from the Army he got told at least ten times about the stuff he was going to give up (benefits).

[Ranger Bill]

Did anyone expect any different?

Just to remind you that Tom Hanks is an honorary membe of the Ranger Hall of Fame (RHOF).

I was not a board member then!

[Silverback]

Why couldn't the "sole survivors" be reassigned to the 70% of the armed forces who aren't "in harm's way" and still serve and be eligible for benefits?

We would enlarge the numbers of non-deployable personnel. What good is a Soldier that can't do his job?

[Silverback]

Jason Hubbard opted to leave Iraq and the military....

I don't get it -- he left of his own free will, right?

BINGO