Meatstick Congrats: My Friend Will

Big congratulations to my friend Will who starts a new job today working for Senator Jim Webb at the his office in DC. Senator Webb is currently working on some very important wartime issues including:

• Dwell Time: His bill was recently passed in the House to ensure that soldiers receive adequate time at home before they are sent back overseas. Somehow, 44 Republicans in the Senate found fault with giving our troops time at home, even though the bill was strongly endorsed by the Military Officers Association of America and other veteran groups.
• Commission to Investigate Wartime Contracting: An effort to create a bipartisan committee to investigate fraud, waste, and abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. This shouldn't have a problem passing the House and Senate...Republicans like saving tax dollars, right?
• Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007: The bill states that returning service members could earn up to 36 months of benefits, equivalent to four academic years, which would include payment of tuition, books and fees, as well as a $1,000 a month living stipend. This bill is endorsed by: Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), the Air Force Sergeants Association (AFSA), the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States (EANGUS), the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Oh yea, the Bush Administration opposes this too.
  

Feel free to write your Congresssman/Senators and tell them to support Jim Webb's legislation listed above...if you support our troops.
Good job Will! Beat Navy!