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US Troops Overseas Unable To Watch NFL, MLB Games While Camp David Remains Open

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posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 03:56 PM
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Apparently, the Obama administration wants this shutdown hurt as many Americans as possible...including our brave men and women serving overseas.

Still, it's interesting that Camp David and government Golf courses remain open.



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.


www.breitbart.com...

washingtonexaminer.com...

msn.foxsports.com...


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posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 03:57 PM
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Oh the horror.. No sports to watch.



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 04:00 PM
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Oh the horror.. No sports to watch.


That's a cruel comment from someone sitting comfortably at home while those troops are taking bullets for your ungrateful attitude. The least we can give them is something to take their minds off of where they're at and why.

But now, apparently even that is too much.



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 04:02 PM
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It wouldn't be a problem if they weren't deployed overseas in the first place.

Just saying...



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 04:02 PM
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thats ok they still have HOCKEY,,right,,,???



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 04:04 PM
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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.



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 04:09 PM
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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



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 04:14 PM
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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


That's the really sad thing. A guy right out of highschool living in the midwest (lets say Ohio) can start off making more money than he's ever had by enlisting.

You know the economy sucks when signing up to be shot at in a war you don't really believe in is a real tempting option.


Personally, I'd try my hand at making pornographic movies...but to each their own!
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posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 04:20 PM
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the AFN [armed forces network] is not the only resource the troops have got.

thats like saying the 'Stars And Stripes' newspaper being the only News available to the troops overseas

Com'on Man... the AFN is the raw recruits level access of TV & video ...
once your at a duty station & got connected BB playoffs & NFL events are available


but i do agree with your outrage of the tactic the Øbama guy is using
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posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 04:20 PM
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I'd like you to prove that please.



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 04:32 PM
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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


Amazing isn't it???? They defend their political president to the T, whom is the one responsible for sending them into these BS situations, and they got the damn balls to slam the troops for doing what their POTUS GOD demands the troops to do??????

Pathetic cowards...........



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 05:56 PM
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i happen to live in Ohio and I'm here to tell you that in my part of the state, getting a job and holding it for longer then 2-3 months at a reduced wage with little hope of getting hired in fulltime is and has been commonplace for a while now.

You ppl gotta stop hating on the troops. If you want to complain about someone, complain to the dumb sh*t in the white house that keeps sending our troops to places they have no business being in. but for cryinoutloud, don't blame the troops for not wishing to get courtmartialed for disobaying a deployment order.



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 06:22 PM
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HomerinNC
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I'd like you to prove that please.


Well, as soon as I get some video shot I'll forward it your way.



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 06:30 PM
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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...



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 06:42 PM
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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...


So your answer is to penalize those whom do what they are told, while giving those giving the orders a free pass????



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 06:45 PM
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tracehd1
Awwww thats just so damn sad.

Yes it is, a lot of soldiers love sports, we work an train hard everyday, sports is one of our greatest passions.
Soldiers are physically active all day, always on the move, there not at home getting fat on the keyboard...much like the poster slamming them.



Well, maybe its better they can't watch the games so they can defend the US from being invaded.

That doesn't make any sense, YOU DO REALIZE THAT WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS TOO...RIGHT? I do applaud you for thinking that me and my battles are immortal godlike robots incapable of emotion and invincible to fear, fatigue, starvation, bullets and IEDs, thanks, but your dreaming.



Or ... Did we invade these Countries on lies? I always get mixed up.

Looks like you always tend to get things mixed up, sounds like a personal problem that needs to be checked out.


Anyways...

Yes, Anyways...


I support no one that invades and occupies another Country on bullS lies and corruption.

Well good for you, because there is no "I" in team, but WE as the people of the US, who themselves signed up as soldiers and followed orders.
I support no one that supports a country like the one we are occupying that supports the killing of their own people, have no internal structure, the killing of women, children and men, who can't even bath themselves on a normal daily basis and somehow see fit to keep women in the dark from simple liberties like voting and womans rights. Much like the poster slamming the US.



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 06:45 PM
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MystikMushroom

HomerinNC
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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.......



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 06:56 PM
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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...



posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 07:22 PM
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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.......


Man don't you know I got like....girls and stuff. Sort of. Maybe. Okay, it's just me in front of a webcam.

*goes off into a corner to cry*
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posted on Oct, 4 2013 @ 07:59 PM
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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...


Sure, our government COULD do a lot of things BETTER for our troops.

But answer me this?

How is it that our government can fund a million or two to find out why lesbians are overweight?

How is it that our government can shell out money to study the effect of coc aine on Asian prostitutes.

How is it that our government can built a damn Squirrel Crossing??? Really, I didn't know squirrels can read!!!

Ever hear about the "Shrimp Treadmill"???? Go ahead! Look it up!

Government waste is rampant, and it isn't isolated to one party. All I am trying to say is that, our military men and women wouldn't be away from their families putting their lives on the line, if it wasn't for our criminal government using them to fight for the global banks!

But yet! Obama is going to punish them by not allowing them to watch the football games on Sunday????

He is a prick! The only time he gives a snip about our military is when he can stand in front of the cameras and pretend that he cares!

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