Bowe Bergdahl in line for tax-free $350,000 lump sum. Unless the Army decides he was a deserter. Trouble is, either Bergdahl is declared a hero or Obama looks like an idiot so guess which way the Army investigation will go.
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On another subject....
4,000 Draft Notices Sent to Men Born in 1800s
Associated Press | Jul 12, 2014 | by Michael Rubinkam
No, the United States isn't trying to build a military force of centenarians.
It just seems that way after the Selective Service System mistakenly sent notices to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897, ordering them to register for the nation's military draft and warning that failure to do so is "punishable by a fine and imprisonment."
The agency realized the error when it began receiving calls from bewildered relatives last week.
Chuck Huey, 73, of Kingston, said he got a notice addressed to his late grandfather Bert Huey, a World War I veteran who was born in 1894 and died in 1995 at age 100.
"I said, 'Geez, what the hell is this about?' It said he was subject to heavy fines and imprisonment if he didn't sign up for the draft board," he said. "We were just totally dumbfounded."
Huey said he tried calling the Selective Service but couldn't get a live person on the line. That frustrated him even more because he wanted to make sure the agency knew there had been a mistake.
"You just never know. You don't want to mess around with the federal government," he said.
The glitch, it turns out, originated with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation during a transfer of nearly 400,000 records to the Selective Service. A clerk working with the state's database failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997 — and for those born a century earlier, PennDOT spokeswoman Jan McKnight said Thursday.
"We made a mistake, a quite serious selection error," McNight said.
The Selective Service didn't initially catch it because the state used a two-digit code to indicate year of birth, spokesman Pat Schuback said. The federal agency identified 27,218 records of men born in the 1800s, began mailing notices to them on June 30, and began receiving calls from family members on July 3. By that time, it had sent 14,250 notices in error.
"It's never happened before," Schuback said.
The men are almost certainly all dead, given that the youngest would be turning 117 this year. Families of those men who received the notices can simply ignore them, he said. Their files will be deactivated and they shouldn't receive additional communications from the Selective Service. The agency also posted a notice and an apology on its website Thursday.
The state Transportation Department, meanwhile, said it had taken steps to ensure its mistake won't be repeated.
"We're really sorry," McNight said. "We apologize."
Sounds like the same people are running the federal Obamacare exchange.
My wife called them to cancel her insurance, and they are still sending her notices that they need more info to make sure she is eligible for coverage. We called them and they say her coverage is terminated, when she asked why she's getting the notices, they can't give her an answer.
YAY for government control!!! :evil:
Hell poppa, sounds like she's dealing with the COMPETENT ones.
I wish just one of those guys was still alive and waddled down the Selective Service Center to register. Wouldn't that make for great TV?
Hello
E.T., is that you? You didn't go home?
The traitor may get money, meanwhile asshat libturds do crap like this....I would love to find the writer of the note, a wood shampoo would follow....
http://youngcons.com/the-note-left-on-the-car-of-this-soldier-sums-up-how-liberals-feel-about-the-military/
Never mind a wood shampoo, an aluminum shampoo ala Mizuno.
Composites are in these days.
"Bergdahl, who was promoted from private first class to sergeant during the time he was held."
Excuse me, can a military expert here explain exactly how that happens?!? Are e-ranks now like public school where you get promoted as a reward for breathing on your own and not getting kicked out?
POWs get promoted "with peers". Been that way for a while - not sure how long.
So in spite of the contrary evidence, they decided he was a POW?
They still haven't figured out is he is a deserter. Didn't you see that clip from the press conference?
Even when they're suspected of desertion?
Due process, I guess.
It's an Obama world, and he's the CSIC.
That is all up in the air, depending on which Pentagon political hack gets to make the decision. In other words, if someone is trying to make points or a political career, there is no way they will make Obungles look bad.