Obama pulls combat pay for troops "not in immediate combat." From Military.com:
Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger Pay
The rules for Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger Pay have changed. Service members will now receive imminent danger pay only for days they actually spend in hazardous areas. This change went in effect on February 1, 2012.
A member of a uniformed service may be entitled to Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger pay at the rate of $225 for any month in which he/she was entitled to basic pay and in which he/she was:
Subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;
On duty in an area in which he was in imminent danger of being exposed to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines and in which, during the period he was on duty in that area, other members of the uniformed services were subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;
Killed, injured, or wounded by hostile fire, explosion of a hostile mine, or any other hostile action; or
On duty in a foreign area in which he was subject to the threat of physical harm or imminent danger on the basis of civil insurrection, civil war, terrorism, or wartime conditions.
Note: Reserve members are also eligible for Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger Pay.
So Sgt. Carlo Eugenio, one of the dozen Americans killed when a suicide bomber rammed the bus he was riding on October 29, 2011, in downtown Kabul...
...not eligible.
How the hell, Mr. President, are you supposed to define where you are not at risk in the middle of a guerilla war? What kind of additional hell are you thinking of putting the survivors of these dead servicemen and women through when they get told their loved ones weren't really killed "(o)n duty in an area in which he was in imminent danger of being exposed to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines."
As per usual, Mr. Obama, what the hell was going through that cesspit of a brain of yours?
