What Our Returning Soldiers Are Facing When They Come Home

LEAVING IRAQ
U.S. Stryker armored vehicles with the 2nd Infantry Division’s 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team line up at a fueling site on Camp Taji, Iraq, Aug. 17, 2010, to fuel up before heading out on a two-day mission to leave Iraq through Kuwait. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Kimberly Hackbarth

No Brass Bands When Troops Return Home From Iraq -- David Wood, Politics Daily

U.S. troops returning home from war may be greeted with pay caps and increased health insurance premiums, and could even lose their jobs -- if Congress no longer wants to keep on the payroll all the soldiers and Marines once needed to fight both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Among other benefits at risk, troops and their families could lose their local military exchanges and commissaries, the large Wal-Mart-type stores where military families enjoy convenient and cut-rate shopping right on base.

Read more ....

My Comment: I am sure that many returning soldiers will find alternative employment when they leave the service .... unfortunately .... for many .... the service is all that they have, and losing it will impact many.