(October 2, 2013 at 1:20 am)cato123 Wrote:Yup, I'm totally psycho:(October 2, 2013 at 12:34 am)festive1 Wrote: They might be getting paid... But commissaries are closed on bases in the US. That's where many military families get their food and supplies. Also, military personnel will be treated at on-base medical facilities, but their families won't. Isn't that just a wonderful way of thanking them for their service? You get paid, but you have to go elsewhere to get food and medical attention for your sick wife and/or kids! And they wouldn't even be getting paid if Obama hadn't signed an order for that to happen.
You're part of the problem if you think anything you said is true.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Mi...28931.html
I have a neighbor who is in the Navy, and works at the Pentagon. His wife and I chatted while picking up kids from school. She's the one who told me on-base families would not be treated at on-base medical facilities, but soldiers would.
According to this: http://m.jdnews.com/news/military/govern...s-1.211405 Emergency and urgent care facilities will be up and running (with civilian staff being promised to be retroactively paid). They will also take previously made appointments, but will not be scheduling appointments for future dates. So my initial statement was a bit off, but not completely if this government shutdown continues for a significant length of time.