Tuesday, April 24, 2007
US Air Force Might Cut Pay for Surge
The Air Force’s top officer said Wednesday that if nearly $1 billion in personnel funds taken from the service to pay for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan isn’t restored by the end of the summer, Airmen and civilian employees might not get their pay.
The prime reason for budgetary problems seems to be based on the budget inconsistencies of the previous US Republican adminisration, not on future hoped for plans of new Democratic administration. In short, someone earlier has cooked the books, it appears. This position has been proclaimed loudly for a long time and the chickens are now coming home to roost.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael “Buzz” Moseley said that the money is coming out of the military personnel account earmarked for the last four months of the year.
“Somebody’s going to have to pay us back,” Moseley said. “You have to pay people every day when they come to work.”
IMO: It seems unfair that the military big wigs may not pay the soldiers who go out and may get killed.
The prime reason for budgetary problems seems to be based on the budget inconsistencies of the previous US Republican adminisration, not on future hoped for plans of new Democratic administration. In short, someone earlier has cooked the books, it appears. This position has been proclaimed loudly for a long time and the chickens are now coming home to roost.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael “Buzz” Moseley said that the money is coming out of the military personnel account earmarked for the last four months of the year.
“Somebody’s going to have to pay us back,” Moseley said. “You have to pay people every day when they come to work.”
IMO: It seems unfair that the military big wigs may not pay the soldiers who go out and may get killed.
# posted by uv : 10:44 PM
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