{"id":2085561,"date":"2023-10-31T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-troops-go-unpaid-while-the-pentagon-bankrolls-abortions-and-ukraines-forever-war\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:16:08","slug":"american-troops-go-unpaid-while-the-pentagon-bankrolls-abortions-and-ukraines-forever-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-troops-go-unpaid-while-the-pentagon-bankrolls-abortions-and-ukraines-forever-war\/","title":{"rendered":"US Troops Unpaid as Pentagon Funds Abortions and Ukraine&#8217;s Endless Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-troops-go-unpaid-while-the-pentagon-bankrolls-abortions-and-ukraines-forever-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2085561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2> America&#8217;s Military Prioritizes Funding Abortion and Proxy Wars Over Troop \u2064Well-being <\/h2>\n<p>While America\u2019s military leadership once prioritized the \u200bwell-being of their troops, today,\u200d it seems far more concerned about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-va-instructs-providers-to-promote-abortion-avoid-saying-mother-and-baby-in-leaked-video\/\" title=\"Leaked video reveals Biden VA's abortion promotion, discourages use of 'mother' and 'baby'.\">funding \u200babortions<\/a> and never-ending proxy wars.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Military.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2023\/10\/27\/soldiers-unpaid-national-guard-hasnt-paid-out-thousands-of-enlistment-bonuses.html?ESRC=eb_231030.nl&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=eb&#038;utm_campaign=20231030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that the military has failed \u200bto compensate roughly 9,000 National Guardsmen \u201cthe bonuses they were promised for \u200bsigning up\u201d to serve, with some payments \u2063having \u201cbeen missing for years.\u201d According to the report, the Guard is also \u201ctracking \u200can additional 3,900 soldiers who completed their service and left the military without getting any bonus\u200b payment, though some may have lost eligibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As noted by the outlet, these bonuses, which can total as high as $20,000, are divvied up over the course of soldiers\u2019 enlistment contracts, with the first half to be distributed after an\u200b enlistee completes initial \u200bservice\u2062 training.\u2062 Meanwhile, the\u200b second half is \u201cdisbursed \u200bhalfway through soldiers\u2019 \u2062first contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guard officials claim \u2062the usual waiting period\u200c to receive the first bonus is six months, although enlistees and their families have indicated \u201cit \u200dcan take years\u201d\u200d to receive\u2063 the payments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really relying on this money to help \u2064with \u200bmoving into\u200d a \u200cnew place with my wife,\u201d one soldier told Military.com. \u201cI did my \u2062end\u2064 of things, \u2064and this is a \u200dreally bad introduction to \u2064the Army, not taking care of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The main cause of the issue appears to stem from understaffing and mismanagement of a \u201cpayment-processing system that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-troops-go-unpaid-while-the-pentagon-bankrolls-abortions-and-ukraines-forever-war\/\" title=\"US Troops Unpaid as Pentagon Funds Abortions and Ukraine's Endless Conflict\">faced multiple\u2062 long-term catastrophic outages<\/a>.\u201d \u2062According to\u2064 the outlet, the system\u2019s \u2064routine failures have resulted in staffers having to \u2064\u201crepeatedly \u200btrack and process payments \u2062manually\u201d for years, prompting \u200cdelays \u200bin\u2063 payments\u2064 to Guardsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Despite honorably serving their country, these soldiers\u2019 financial plights are \u200cat the bottom\u200b of the Biden Pentagon\u2019s to-do list. A day before \u2063Military.com dropped its bombshell report, the\u2062 Defense Department announced it was shipping <em>another <\/em>multi-million-dollar aid package to Ukraine. Totaling $150 million, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3569812\/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">package<\/a> includes an array of weapons, ammunition, and defense capabilities purportedly aimed at helping Kyiv continue its fight against Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>While Congress and the Biden administration committed more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crfb.org\/blogs\/congress-approved-113-billion-aid-ukraine-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$113 billion<\/a> in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Ukraine in 2022 alone, that hasn\u2019t \u200cstopped the White House\u200c from bullying Congress into authorizing \u200ceven \u200cmore aid\u200b for the Eastern European nation. A little over a week ago, the Biden administration proposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/20\/politics\/us-israel-ukraine-aid-package\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$105 billion\u200d spending package<\/a> that would force Congress to ship billions more to\u2063 Ukraine as\u2063 a package deal with U.S. aid to\u200c Israel. In essence, the Biden administration is using Hamas\u2019 \u2062attack on Israel to coerce House Republicans \u2063into dumping more money into Kyiv\u2019s \u200ccoffers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just \u2064subsidizing Ukraine that takes priority over paying U.S. service\u200d members, however. The Pentagon is also busy at work bankrolling abortions for\u200c its female \u200demployees. In February, Defense Secretary \u2062Lloyd\u2063 Austin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3301006\/dod-releases-policies-to-ensure-access-to-non-covered-reproductive-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> the agency would financially cover abortion-related travel expenses for service members and their dependents. This prompted Alabama\u2063 Sen.\u2063 Tommy Tuberville to launch a protest of \u2062the\u2064 policy the following month. Using his position on the Senate \u200bArmed Services\u2064 Committee, Tuberville has been \u2063slow-walking military promotions \u200drequiring Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite facing <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/09\/if-the-military-actually-cared-about-readiness-it-wouldnt-have-fired-members-for-refusing-an-experimental-shot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hysterical attacks<\/a> from\u200b congressional Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/10\/former-cia-chief-michael-hayden-calls-for-assassination-of-sen-tuberville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">former intel \u2064officials<\/a>, and high-ranking military\u200c members,\u200b Tuberville has stood strong in his defense for life \u200band pledged to continue his protest \u200buntil the Defense Department revokes the\u2064 policy. While Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/20\/schumers-cave-on-military-nominations-shows-his-attacks-on-tuberville-were-always-political\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tacitly admitted<\/a> he had \u2062the power \u200bto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-pentagon-would-rather-fund-troops-abortions-than-their-overseas-living-expenses\/\" title=\"Pentagon prioritizes troops' abortion funding over overseas living costs.\">bring military promotions<\/a> to the Senate \u200cfloor the entire\u200b time last month after he filed cloture on \u2062several Biden nominees,\u200c that hasn\u2019t\u200d stopped Democrats from trying to change the rules \u2063to skirt Tuberville\u2019s holds.<\/p>\n<p>According\u2064 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/democrats-eye-rare-procedural-move-to-defeat-tuberville-military-holds\/ar-AA1iUKrR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The\u200c Hill<\/a>, Senate Democrats and \u201ca handful of Republicans\u201d are scheming behind the scenes to potentially change Senate rules and \u200beffectively neuter Tuberville\u2019s protest. The maneuver would purportedly \u201callow the Senate to move military promotions\u2063 in a group through the\u2064 end of 2024.\u201d At least 60 votes \u200cwould be needed to override a potential filibuster, meaning Democrats would need Republican \u2063support to change the rules.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-announces-exit-from-leftist-controlled-voter-roll-management-group-eric\/\" title=\"Texas withdraws from ERIC, a voter-roll management group controlled by leftists.\">state \u2064content writer<\/a> for Convention\u2064 of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous\u200d outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and\u2062 Conservative Review. \u200cFollow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Is the \u2064military&#8217;s focus on proxy \u200cwars and foreign aid taking away resources from\u200c the well-being of its own troops?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200cLled-its-ranks-with-wokeness\/&#8221; \u2064target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noreferrer\u2064 noopener&#8221;>backlash<\/a> from his\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-wants-sanctions-on-iran-backed-terror-group-targeted-in-biden-airstrike\/\" title=\"GOP Wants Sanctions on Iran-Backed Terror Group Targeted in Biden Airstrike\">fellow committee members<\/a>, Tuberville has remained steadfast in his \u200dopposition to the policy, \u2064arguing that\u200c taxpayer\u200c dollars should not be used to fund abortions. He has \u2064also expressed\u200b concerns over the potential impact \u200bthis policy may have on\u2062 military \u200dreadiness and morale.<\/p>\n<p>It is\u200c troubling \u200bto see the military prioritize funding abortions over the well-being\u2062 of \u2063its troops.\u200b While abortion is a contentious \u200cissue, it is\u2062 clear \u2063that\u200d the majority \u2062of Americans do not \u200dsupport using taxpayer dollars to fund it. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/07\/28\/abortion-polling-support-repealing-hyde-amendment-fund-abortion\/10133484002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> conducted by USA \u2063Today, only 27% of Americans believe that taxpayer dollars should \u200cbe used to fund \u2062abortion \u200dservices.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it \u2064is concerning that the military is more focused on proxy \u200cwars and providing aid\u2064 to \u200cforeign nations\u2063 than\u2064 taking care of\u200d its own troops. The ongoing conflict in \u200cUkraine is undoubtedly important, but it should not come at the expense of the well-being\u2062 and compensation\u200c of our servicemen and women. Our \u200ctroops put their lives on the line\u2062 to \u200cdefend our country, and they deserve better treatment from their own \u2063government.<\/p>\n<p>The mismanagement of \u2063the payment-processing \u2062system and\u2064 the\u200b repeated failures to deliver promised bonuses \u2064to \u200bNational\u2062 Guardsmen are unacceptable. Those who serve in the military should not have\u200b to \u2062struggle to receive the compensation they were promised. The fact that some soldiers have been waiting for years to receive their bonuses is appalling and \u200creflects a lack of \u2064respect and care \u200dfor\u2064 our troops.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for the military leadership\u2064 to reassess its priorities. Instead of prioritizing funding\u200c abortions and proxy wars, the \u2063military should \u200cput the well-being and care of its troops \u2062first. This means addressing the issues with the payment-processing system and ensuring that soldiers \u2064receive their bonuses in a timely manner. It also means focusing on providing the necessary support and resources for our troops, both during and after their service.<\/p>\n<p>Our \u2063servicemen and women deserve better. They deserve a military leadership that prioritizes \u200dtheir well-being\u2064 over political agendas and foreign conflicts.\u2064 It\u2062 is time for a\u200b change in\u2064 priorities,\u200b and\u2062 it starts with holding our military \u200dleaders accountable for their\u200d actions. Only then can we truly honor and \u200dsupport the brave men \u200cand women who selflessly serve our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s military leadership, once focused on troops&#8217; welfare, now appears more concerned with funding abortions and endless proxy wars. Military.com recently revealed that around 9,000 National Guardsmen were not compensated the promised signing-up bonuses. 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