(July 29, 2013 at 7:48 am)Texas Sailor Wrote: I honestly don't know enough to make an educated assessment on the entire administration. From a military perspective, I have noticed negative changes that were never issues before. We are paying for work supplies out of pocket to name one. Tuition assistance, one of the big things I joined for, has been all but destroyed. I needed 2 more classes when the sequestration hit and my registration got kicked back. TA had been denied due to a cut-back on funds. I don't think tuition assistance for the military is an unnecessary cost, but I guess I'm not the one making the call.
US Sailors were paying out of their own pocket for supplies even back in the late 90's. They kept saying they were going to buy us supplies but the amount would keep getting cut over and over until we eventually didn't get a single item.
That happened, over, and over, and over again.
It didn't help that all the dry dock shipworkers in Newport News were a bunch of ex-cons that would rob us blind.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
