Reserve Retirement Pay at 55 finds Significant Supporter!
House Armed Services Vice Chairman Supports HR 783
Washington, D.C. - (6/12/2006) A significant co-sponsor has lent their name to HR 783 (Reduces age of retirement pay for reservists to age 55). Representative Curt Weldon, 58 of Pennsylvania's 7 House District.
He is senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the full Committee as well as Chairman of the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee.
"As Vice-Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, I am committed to insuring that the men and women in our military have the necessary resources to protect our nation."
Weldon served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee, overseeing the development and testing of key military systems, weapons programs, and technologies that fulfill military needs.
He is perhaps nationally best known for his elevating the view of the work by Able-Danger. That was a project that had identified several of the 9/11 terrorists prior to 9/11/2001! His testimony to the Senate Judiciary committee is available at:
http://curtweldon.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=36967
Regarding the recent New York Times becoming a display panel for top secrets and endangering our efforts to combat terror:
"As the vice chairman of both the Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, I'm given access to almost any level of intelligence I want. Do I then have the power and the authority to determine in my own mind what I would or would not release? That's not what my job is; I swore and took an oath not to do that," he told PBS.
"And the people that these papers are dealing with took the same oath. I'm really outraged and incensed at both the paper, but also at these Americans who work for our system who, even though they took an oath, have selectively determined what they will declassify."
This is not an insignificant player who has declared himself a co-sponsor of this Reserve Retirement reform. If you're a consituent or not, you may wish to send your 'thanks' via http://curtweldon.house.gov/Contact/ .
There should be no discussion at this point, why
shouldn't guardmen and reservists receive a retirement at age 55.
Answer the question: Are guardmen and reservists someone to pick on with no heart for recognition when sent on the Battlefield. Perfect example today, who has been sent forward, who is out there serving our country and dying by dozen? No rocket science should be able to answer.
If guardmen or reservists make it back home safely from tours of battlefield mission, do you really believe that employment is waiting for them.
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