Navy Is Finally Going To Pay For Deceased Sailors' Families To Attend Memorial Services

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the Pentagon has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: After nine years of Afghanistan and seven years of Iraq, the United States Navy is finally doing the right thing.

The first Navy causality in Iraq was combat medic Michael Vann Johnson Jr., who died 3-25-2003 somewhere in Iraq.



BAMBERG, Germany — The Navy will now pay for families of deceased sailors to travel to unit memorial services for their loved ones, Navy officials announced Tuesday.

http://www.stripes.com/news/navy-to-pay-for-deceased-sailors-families-to-attend-memorial-services-1.116699

[whistler162]

1. Nice of the Navy to add UNIT memorial services to

what the list of memorial services they will transport the family members too.

Not really a right or wrong thing since the families where already provided with transport/lodging to the funeral/memorial service of the slain just not to the secondary/unit memorial service.