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SHUTDOWN POLITICS: U.S. TROOPS OVERSEAS UNABLE TO WATCH NFL, MLB GAMES WHILE CAMP DAVID OPEN
U.S. troops overseas will be probably be unable to watch NFL and MLB playoff games on the Armed Services Network due to the government shutdown while Camp David is kept open in case President Barack Obama wants to go on a retreat.
The Washington Examiner noted will be "little if any service" on the Armed Forces Network (AFN) on overseas bases, and a notice on the Armed Forces Network page reads:
“GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. Due to the government shutdown, the Defense Department can only provide limited overseas television, radio, print and web services.”
Intercollegiate athletics at the service academies have also been cancelled but college football games, which are played without appropriated funds, this weekend between Air-Force and Navy and Army and Boston College will go on after there had been much uncertainty.
The AFN station, which allows U.S. troops to have a sense of normalcy by keeping up with sports back home, will face mandatory staff cuts. According to NESN, the only station that is apparently working is AFN News.
Oh the horror.. No sports to watch.
HomerinNC
To all those crapping on our soldiers, remember:
THEY didnt CHOOSE to be deployed, they were ORDERED to go there, buy the SAME congress that shut down the govt.
And before you say they shouldnt have volunteered, most have joined because lack of work here
To all those crapping on our soldiers, remember:
THEY didnt CHOOSE to be deployed, they were ORDERED to go there, buy the SAME congress that shut down the govt.
And before you say they shouldnt have volunteered, most have joined because lack of work here
HomerinNC
reply to post by MystikMushroom
I'd like you to prove that please.
War shouldn't be conformable ever... the harder it is for the continuation of any hostility the better we all are, the more questions are made if it is worth the effort and the less it costs to the civilian populations to support the war machine, and less time the politicians have in office. In general this runs parallel to the problems behind the idea of a professional army...
tracehd1
Awwww thats just so damn sad.
Well, maybe its better they can't watch the games so they can defend the US from being invaded.
Or ... Did we invade these Countries on lies? I always get mixed up.
Anyways...
I support no one that invades and occupies another Country on bullS lies and corruption.
MystikMushroom
HomerinNC
reply to post by MystikMushroom
I'd like you to prove that please.
Well, as soon as I get some video shot I'll forward it your way.
Arnie123
MystikMushroom
HomerinNC
reply to post by MystikMushroom
I'd like you to prove that please.
Well, as soon as I get some video shot I'll forward it your way.
I pretty sure HomerinNC is into the straight stuff.......
No my answer is that those that are penalized of think that are badly teated to act on that fact. What I don't get is the relation you make regarding the fact that they aren't given free access to the sport events (they can probably get around that in many forms). I would even question your logic that the tax payer should pay for that content to be accessible in the first place, I think there is better ways to spend money even in regards to keeping moral up, one needs only to look to the suicide rate of the troops to see that priorities are wrong. Even spending the money toward veterans reintegration would be better...