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Are you a stop-loss veteran? Do you know someone who is? Better read on, then:
The 2009 War Supplemental Appropriations Act established Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay (RSLSP), providing $500 for each month/partial month served in stop loss status from September 11, 2001 through September 30, 2009. Being in "stop loss" status meant that the affected troop could not leave active service when his or her tour of duty ended. This typically extended tours of duty by several months for each troop affected.
Service members, veterans, and beneficiaries of servicemembers whose service was involuntarily extended under Stop Loss between Sept. 11, 2001 and Sept. 30, 2009 are eligible for RSLSP.
To receive this benefit, those who served under stop loss must submit a claim for the special pay. Throughout the year, the services have been reaching out to servicemembers, veterans and their families through direct mail, veteran service organizations, and the media. But there is still money left to be claimed, and the deadline is approaching. The average benefit is $3,700.
Individuals who meet eligibility criteria may submit an application between Oct. 21, 2009 and Oct., 21 2010. By law, there is no authorization to make payments on claims that are submitted after Oct. 21, 2010, so apply NOW.
Eligible members should print, complete and sign Department of Defense Form 2944, Claim for Retroactive Stop Loss Payment.
Next, choose the appropriate method for submitting the claim form and available supporting documents based on your service specifications. This information can be found on your service’s stop loss Web site.
The following service-specific sites provide more information and allow you to begin the RSLSP claim process.
Army
Marine Corps
Navy
Air Force
- 800-525-0102
- Web Site
- E-mail (active)
- E-mail (guard/reserve)
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tweeted and recommended. thanks for spreading the word to help our vets
It’s beyond understanding why the Pentagon requires our veterans to APPLY for this money when they know perfectly well who deserves it, from their own extensive (and expensive!) record-keeping.
But I hope EVERYONE who’s due this money applies for it NOW. It would be a shame for any veteran not to get what’s owed for service. America made you stay longer than you signed up for, and you’re owed for that.
So get your money. Please!~
I just linked this to FB and asked my kids to send it out, too.
Making these abused, enslaved people “apply” for their forking paycheck! Jesus!
please forgive this OT…it ties in however as MIC article
The Origins of the Overclass
By Steve Kangas
The wealthy have always used many methods to accumulate wealth, but it was not until the mid-1970s that these methods coalesced into a superbly organized, cohesive and efficient machine. After 1975, it became greater than the sum of its parts, a smooth flowing organization of advocacy groups, lobbyists, think tanks, conservative foundations, and PR firms that hurtled the richest 1 percent into the stratosphere.
The origins of this machine, interestingly enough, can be traced back to the CIA. This is not to say the machine is a formal CIA operation, complete with code name and signed documents. (Although such evidence may yet surface — and previously unthinkable domestic operations such as MK-ULTRA, CHAOS and MOCKINGBIRD show this to be a distinct possibility.) But what we do know already indicts the CIA strongly enough. Its principle creators were Irving Kristol, Paul Weyrich, William Simon, Richard Mellon Scaife, Frank Shakespeare, William F. Buckley, Jr., the Rockefeller family, and more. Almost all the machine’s creators had CIA backgrounds.
During the 1970s, these men would take the propaganda and operational techniques they had learned in the Cold War and apply them to the Class War. Therefore it is no surprise that the American version of the machine bears an uncanny resemblance to the foreign versions designed to fight communism. The CIA’s expert and comprehensive organization of the business class would succeed beyond their wildest dreams. In 1975, the richest 1 percent owned 22 percent of America’s wealth. By 1992, they would nearly double that, to 42 percent — the highest level of inequality in the 20th century.
How did this alliance start? The CIA has always recruited the nation’s elite: millionaire businessmen, Wall Street brokers, members of the national news media, and Ivy League scholars. During World War II, General “Wild Bill” Donovan became chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. Donovan recruited so exclusively from the nation’s rich and powerful that members eventually came to joke that “OSS” stood for “Oh, so social!”
Another early elite was Allen Dulles, who served as Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961. Dulles was a senior partner at the Wall Street firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, which represented the Rockefeller empire and other mammoth trusts, corporations and cartels. He was also a board member of the J. Henry Schroeder Bank, with offices in Wall Street, London, Zurich and Hamburg. His financial interests across the world would become a conflict of interest when he became head of the CIA. Like Donavan, he would recruit exclusively from society’s elite.
By the 1950s, the CIA had riddled the nation’s businesses, media and universities with tens of thousands of part-time, on-call operatives. Their employment with the agency took a variety of forms, which included:
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
I know. But the congresscritters that will gladly vote for a useless weapons system (especially if the people making it give them kickbacks or move their plants to the congresscritters’ CDs) somehow balk at giving money to groups that take care of veterans. (Remember how John McCain wanted to shut down the VA?)
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One of their most notorious recruits was billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
[more at link.]
Back-door draft. If we had a draft both wars would be over.
Tell me, how much do those who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan going to get? Don’t ask the military as they don’t know how many there were and they sure are not going to pay those Killed in Action, much like Prudential doesn’t pay either the insurance money due families.
What a farce!
I don’t tweet or Facebook, but I’ve put a link up at my blog. Thanks for bringing this up, PW.
Seems odd to me, too. They have payroll records. Unfortunately, I don’t know how they’re managed or how well. It would be best in any case for veterans to whom this applies to make sure the system is doing what it’s supposed to for them.
The military has a lot of records, which they don’t review if it is going to cost them money.
I had to request my Korean Defense Service Medal. I got it after 2 years. I know I am due a Presidential Unit Citation and 3 campaign acknowledgements, but they will never be issued unless I bug them. They have yet to issue me any medals from Vietnam even though requested.
The military owes a lot of people a lot of things. In the military it is called “Don’t Ask, Won’t Issue”! Even if they do prepare to wait until you are dead!
- from ‘Jeremy Lange’s “War At Home”: Surge Babies‘
Would this explain why would anyone ever work for a prospective employer who has a reputation for being so dishonest that they’d take your labor but never pay you for it let alone allow you to collect your benefits?