[ABC 11 h/t Red State] When you walk into the construction training facility at Mountain Heritage High School in Burnsville, it looks and sounds like any other carpentry class -- until you realize what the students there are actually working on.
"It makes me feel very proud knowing that I am able to help and change someone's life that is in need through not only school but building and just helping out those that can't really help themselves," said Croix Silver, a senior at the high school.
Silver and classmate Hensley England are both seniors in Jeremy Dotts' honors carpentry class and part of a new initiative aimed at helping their hometown get back on its feet in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
"I just wanted to go out and help others and this a great opportunity to do that," England said.
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Taking lessons from the Amish.
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[Military.com h/t Red State] The Army is repurposing more than half of the money it collects from junior enlisted soldiers for food, according to data reviewed by Military.com. The numbers suggest that a large portion of those funds are not going toward feeding soldiers, a diversion of resources coming at a time when troops increasingly struggle to find nutritious food on base.
The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops -- taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members who live in barracks and is intended to help cover food costs.
At Fort Stewart, Georgia, for example, soldiers contributed $17 million, but the base spent just $2.1 million -- redirecting 87% of the funds. Schofield Barracks in Hawaii collected $14.5 million but used only $5.3 million, meaning 63% of the money was used elsewhere.
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02/15/2025 09:23 ||
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Someone needs to be court-martialed and jailed for that.
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This happened in boot camp and later. The money was to,pay for food and uniforms. (1962…..)
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If they simply calculated number of personnel x BAS per installation, it is bogus. Married enlisted and officers get their BAS directly in their pay check. Single junior enlisted who live in the barracks get a meal card for the consolidated dining facilities and don't even see BAS. BAS and quarters allowance are not part of basic pay. GAO for generations has argued that it should be, but Congress bulks because it would then be calculated into the pay and subsequently in to the retirement pay. Same goes for special pay for qualifications.
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This makes no sense to me. When a soldier gets BAS he is expected to pay for his meals. Soldiers that live in the barracks do not get BAS, so how is it now deducted from their pay? Either this is fake, or they are really bad at explaining how funds are allocated for dining facilities.
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BTW, back in the 80s-90s, the number crunchers wanted more teeth less tail in force structure. So they cut the old mess hall personnel (cooks, etc), and contracted it out. Well contractors try to pay the minimum, so if you leave the house for any reason, you see all the fast food outlets with "Now Hiring" signs out front. Add in that most military installations are not adjacent to major metro areas (the boonies for things that go bang and boom a lot), and your pool of available manpower is in the micro level. Those people have to have a place to stay and get their class 1 supply too. Contracting personnel play the lowest bidder game rather than best bidder and consider the additional costs of getting local civilian labor that can sustain operations. Hint - its obviously not what the local fast food establishments offer.
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To #3 - I thought the original Red State article had more details than what I posted from the Miltary.com article. But what I scanned there went over my head.
Maybe it should be a target for DOGE.
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Ref #5: Closing the mess halls was a slippery slope.
[Epoch Times] President Donald Trump on Feb. 14 signed an executive order barring funding to universities and schools with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The order, detailed in a fact sheet provided by the White House, will prohibit all federal funding to any schools that implement COVID-19 vaccine mandates and directs the secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services to issue compliance guidelines and plans to end existing mandates. The secretaries will also create a report of non-compliant institutions and a process for blocking funds from supporting any that impose mandates. That'll take a while to implement. Perhaps the threat will motivate some, following a lengthy period of screeching, and perhaps a judicial injunction.
The institutions affected include educational service agencies, state education agencies, local education agencies, elementary schools, secondary schools, or any institutions of higher education that require students to receive COVID-19 vaccines to attend in-person educational programs.
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It should be all vaccines.
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It is, other than Hillsdale. Pretty sure Hillsdale has no vaccine mandate.
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Why do we even have in-person high schools and colleges in 2025?
Almost anything that's worth learning can be learned via The Great Courses, etc.
Not everything but almost anything.
[PJMedia] The International Organization for Migration is the primary human smuggling organization that the United Nations uses to shuffle weaponized humans ("migrants") around the geopolitical chess board to destabilize nation-states and dilute their cultures.
It’s the UPS We Love Logistics™ of human trafficking, operating under the guise of humanitarianism.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations related organization working in the field of migration. The organization implements operational assistance programmes for migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrant workers...
The organization's global mandate includes assistance to migrants, including migrant workers, refugees and internally displaced persons. This broad mandate of the organization has earned it praise for flexibility in crisis situations, but also criticism for legal accountability in protection issues...
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), IOM is one of the central actors in humanitarian aid within the UN system, especially in the context of displacement. IOM's main aid measures include shelter, protection, the provision of basic medical and sanitary care, life safety, coordination, telecommunications and logistics.
It just got wrecked by a single glorious stroke of the executive pen — a stroke that any other president for the past sixty years since the USAID monstrosity was Frankensteined into existence but didn’t. Hell of a good start
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I think we must have by now, assembled the puppet masters of USAID. They were as you may recall, first on the list of DOGE things to do. I would offer the feckless silence of a complicit Congress and the signatures of "51 intelligence professionals" as corroborating evidence.
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Waiting for a reckoning / reconciliation regarding Congresscritters becoming multimillionaires on a roughly 200K/year salary. Frugal? I think not. A few hundred rocks that need need NEED to be turned over.
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If a NGO shuts down because of the 90 freeze, it's not a non-governmental organization.
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Don't forget, the judicial resistance is delaying cutoff long enough to tap out these accounts and bury the evidence of them and other, as yet undiscovered, slush funds.
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Is it any wonder that DoD has failed every audit?
From the looks of things now, they passed audit by not having an audit.
In case anyone thought it was bullshit, some dude was crying about how his wife isn't getting her $1million to teach Afghan women about modern western art. Rumors confirmed.
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