Congress and the President are in a fight over the application of the War Powers Act to Libya. A thought strayed through my increasingly empty mind the other day: I wonder if the flyers are getting combat pay.
This morning the paper reveals they aren't, they're getting "imminent danger pay", something of which I've never heard and something which apparently applies to military in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and other places. It may oversimplify things, but until they get combat pay, I'm okay with not calling it "hostilities". And meanwhile I suggest Congress look into the need for "imminent danger pay". We haven't had many troops killed in Turkey in the last few years that I can remember.
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