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Except when mobilized to Federal Service, National Guard units belong to the state, and not the federal government. So, what happens when a member of the National Guard wants to move from one state to another? Is the member required to travel back to the original state to perform drills?
Not necessarily. It's possible to request transfer from a National Guard unit to a NG unit in another state, and such transfers happen all the time.
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/military-sham-marriages-got-marines-housing-money-125247001.html
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Military: Sham marriages got Marines housing money
AP – Sun, Jul 3, 2011CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — Military officials are charging three California-based Marine corporals charged with fraud and larceny for entering in a pair of sham marriages to collect housing funding, officials said.
The military alleges that a lesbian couple — one a Marine, the other a civilian — decided to live together off base and wanted to collect the $1,200 housing benefit granted to married Marines.
The female Marine found a male Marine willing to get married, allowing them to collect the housing benefit, and the civilian woman also eventually married a Marine and collected funds, 1st Lt. Maureen Dooley, a spokeswoman at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, said Saturday.
The female Marine, Cpl. Ashley Vice, told San Diego's KGTV-TV that she and her partner, Jaime Murphy, were forced to enter sham marriages because the military doesn't provide allowances for unmarried couples and they couldn't afford to live off base without the extra money. She and her partner only wanted to "be a family," Vice said.
"It doesn't matter what their sexual preferences are, if they're violating the law and making fraudulent use of government money, they will be held accountable," Dooley said.
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=170453
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The military alleges that a lesbian couple — one a Marine, the other a civilian — decided to live together off base and wanted to collect the $1,200 housing benefit granted to married Marines.
The female Marine found a male Marine willing to get married, allowing them to collect the housing benefit, and the civilian woman also eventually married a Marine and collected funds, 1st Lt. Maureen Dooley, a spokeswoman at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, said Saturday.
The female Marine, Cpl. Ashley Vice, told San Diego's KGTV-TV that she and her partner, Jaime Murphy, were forced to enter sham marriages because the military doesn't provide allowances for unmarried couples and they couldn't afford to live off base without the extra money. She and her partner only wanted to "be a family," Vice said.
"It doesn't matter what their sexual preferences are, if they're violating the law and making fraudulent use of government money, they will be held accountable," Dooley said.
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=170453
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Friday, January 12, 2007 Governors lose in power struggle over National Guard |
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A little-noticed change in federal law packs an important change in who is in charge the next time a state is devastated by a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina. To the dismay of the nation’s governors, the White House now will be empowered to go over a governor’s head and call up National Guard troops to aid a state in time of natural disasters or other public emergencies. Up to now, governors were the sole commanders in chief of citizen soldiers in local Guard units during emergencies within the state. A conflict over who should control Guard units arose in the days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. President Bush sought to federalize control of Guardsmen in Louisiana in the chaos after the hurricane, but Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D) refused to relinquish command. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Allowance_for_Housing Excerpt: Basic Allowance for Housing (B-A-H) is a United States military entitlement given to many military members. It was previously called Basic allowance for quarters (BAQ). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entitlement Excerpt: Legal term As a legal term, entitlement carries no value judgment: it simply denotes a right granted. [edit] NarcissismIn clinical psychology and psychiatry, an unrealistic, exaggerated, or rigidly held sense of entitlement may be considered a symptom of narcissistic personality disorder, seen in those who 'because of early frustrations...arrogate to themselves the right to demand lifelong reimbursement from fate'.[2]Narcissists hold unreasonable expectations of particularly favorable treatment and automatic compliance because they consider themselves special. Failure to comply is considered an attack on their superiority, and the perpetrator is considered an "awkward" or "difficult" person. Defiance of their will is a narcissistic injury that can trigger narcissistic rage.[3] 'John Murray (1964) in his now classic paper of narcissism and the ego ideal' laid great 'emphasis on narcissistic entitlement and the manner in which this reflects infantile pregenital narcissistic fixations' - something which led in turn to the 'notion of the "narcissistic triad". The narcissistic triad involves (1) narcissistic entitlement, (2) disappointment and disillusionment at the frustration of narcissistic needs, and (3) narcissistic rage'.[4] Belief in the special, exceptional nature of 'narcissistic entitlement dictates that the patient has a right to life on his own terms...Such narcissistic entitlement plays a central role in borderline pathology, since the borderline sees himself as a special person with special rights and entitlements, such that any frustration of these entitled desires tends to undermine and often shatter the patient's self-esteem'.[5] In the wake of Kohut's self-psychology, a valorisation of narcissistic entitlement might be said to have taken place, as 'the age of "normal narcissism" and normal narcissistic entitlement had arrived...[a] child's right and entitlement that its parents are obliged to proffer at the least the minimum requisite "self-object" soothing...to allow the infant/child to develop a sense of self-cohesion'.[6] http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/single-soldier.html Excerpt; "In 13 years I will be eligible for retirement. If I were to remain an E-6 for all of that time and live in the barracks, the Army would save approximately $42,888 in BAQ that they would otherwise have had to pay out. That is $42,888 that I could have put into buying a house. Yet my married counterpart can have a house almost paid for by the time he or she retires and it would be paid for by funds that many other single soldiers cannot even get. "The Army spent a fair amount of money training me to be a Special Forces weapons sergeant. Now it stands a very good chance of losing its investment because of this issue. If you told a civilian that you were going to take away part of his/her pay and provide them with a room to live in at their place of work, and then told that same person that you were going to do this to save the company money but this policy only applied to single men and women, that company would very quickly find itself facing an equal opportunity lawsuit. "I enjoy my job a great deal but I'm not willing to live in a virtual state of poverty anymore. In 14 months I get to make my decision on whether or not I will reenlist. This issue and the bonus for Special Forces weapons sergeant will determine that. I already have job satisfaction, but if I can't afford to live, it does me no good." The overt discrimination against the single soldier continues to this day, resulting in the loss of excellent soldiers, poor morale, inevitable repercussions from soldiers marrying only to get the benefits, and a drastic reduction in military readiness. The human and material costs have been and continue to be criminally enormous. http://www.jackson.army.mil/Finance/Trainee.htm Excerpt: A. You must provide proof of family members (i.e. Marriage and/or Birth Certificates plus Divorce Decrees if divorced). You must be providing support to these family members. There are several types of BAH. BAH is the combination of the old term Basic Allowance for Quarters (BAQ) and Variable Housing Allowance VHA). BAH is paid only to married Activity Army Soldiers and based upon the ZIP Code of your family members. BAH II is the BAQ portion only. This is paid to married RC soldiers. RC soldiers are not paid the portion of BAH. BAH DIFF is the difference of with dependent and without dependent BAH II rates. It’s paid to soldiers that have court ordered child support (divorcees or soldiers who legally grant custody of family members to another person) or single soldiers voluntarily supporting family members. There are other conditions where BAH is payable but don't normally pertain to soldiers in training. http://www.military.com/benefits/tricare/defense-enrollment-eligibility-reporting-system Excerpt: Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS)If you are a servicemember, retiree, or dependent, DEERS registration is the key to getting your TRICARE benefits eligibility established. DEERS is a computerized database of military sponsors, families and others worldwide who are entitled under the law to TRICARE benefits. The following overview will assist you in registering for DEERS and verifying and updating your DEERS information. | ||||||
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