Easterner has an agenda… keeping his 50k plus job at BOI… its too hard for him to drive 40 miles each way for that amount of money.

EDITOR NOTE–You got the last word. Time to move on to new material.

I for one, like jet noise.
I also like sirens screaming past my home, the rotors noise of LifeFlight, and the alarm of a nieghbors barking dog announcing an intruder.

BTW: Most of today’s military is geared to serve as a mercenary force in the Mid-East/Asia… Only a small part is reserved to keeping USA safe.

You’d think the Arabs would sell us cheap oil for keeping them safe, but instead they grease DC with cash to our politicians who then agree to not notice high oil prices.

RodSE: I work for free several times a year. I call it direct, hands on community assistance. No middle-man, no transaction, no government involvement. (Government-aid workers hate it. How dare I teach people to fish.)
It also keeps my yearly income low to avoid paying taxes to the greasy crooks driving our country off a cliff.

Here’s a link to some credible graphs which did not come from the comic-strip room at the WhiteHouse. America is broke and then some… She is without the ability to pay… Sad but true, we are in decline.

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/10-charts-revealing-americas-painful-jobless-recovery.html/?a=viewall

I will remain mute to moot and illogical points from here on out.

I will ask the question again… are you…or have you ever been in the military? Where do you get your info?
You are quite pompous aren’t you??
You might want to look at that web page…lol.. the IANG already has units under the command of the Wing King you mentioned… in addition to a unit at Whidbey Island, a unit from Tinker AFB Ok. and even a unit from Singapore.

Remember those reading classes in grade school… guess not.

Want me to shoot more holes in your story, it wont be hard.

EDITOR NOTE–RICK and EASTERNER, if you don’t start playing nice, you’r headed for Time Out and comments will bel closed. Don’t make me do it!

+It’s 50 miles each way. Btw MapQuest puts that at 1 hour 2 minutes, EACH WAY, bro. You’re going, you might have to come back. 2 hours drive time for that trip, unless your mother is driving and then it might seem a lot longer. 🙂
+Usually a weekend drill includes a Saturday and a Sunday.
+The full-timers would have to do that 2 HOURS every work day not just Sat/Sun and like you say, there are a lot of them.
+The rest of your 6 points pretty much follow along that same path.

But I’ll clarify one for you, if I may, and I’ll try to go slowly:
The Guard gets funding from a separate “checking account” than the Air Force gets their funding. The Guard also gets a little bit of money from the State of Idaho’s “checking account”. Sometimes Congress says, “Dear National Guard Bureau, Your budget is going to get cut, but the Air Force will get to keep their budget and their stuff. Ha-ha, suck it up weekend warriors. With love and appreciation, Congress”. Or maybe vice-versa.

Different sources of funding means there is not just one “checking account” paying for both at the same time. While you might want to play along that it is all being paid by “the taxpayer”, unfortunately bureaucratic budgets don’t work that way.

If Congress says, “Guess what Mtn Home AFB, we are shutting your doors”…which certainly could happen, the Idaho Guard would have a tough time paying for that turf from their “checking account”; yet they still have a requirement to exist.

So my statement “no one is funding 2 base” is a figurative statement. All of that money does not come from ONE budgetary account. I can relate bro, it’s a tough one to understand. It’s kind of like using an analogy to explain a situation… Boise Airport is to the SLC Airport like Gowen is to MHAFB- kind of difficult to understand. Analogies….remember those story problems in school?

+Again, Rick, you use the words “the mission”. Can you please articulate “the mission” and how the Guard’s is the same as MHAFB? You might also want to email the MHAFB Commander and let him know he has “multi missions” cuz his web page only lists one.
I really am interested in what you think is “the mission” (their missions), so I hope you won’t be mute.

Was that logical enough, or just more “blatantly stupid” stuff?

Are you in the guard?… have you ever been in the military?

Rod says sometimes you have to live in places like MH- to have a job. (even though we are talking about part-time employment and Boise being the alternative).

Rick, you then said driving 1 hour to MH ought not hurt recruitment- “wa wa” “buck up weekend warriors” . So you and the Guard command disagree.

Zippo thinks military pay is “mind blowing numbers” and therefore the cost to drive 2 hours must be irrelevant.

Rod mentions the enlisted pay rate and says its “not much”.

And then the EDITOR says, “it’s not a bad deal” as if to say Guard members are well paid for what they are expected to do.

I simply am reminding readers of what some military members are expected to do for their pay and “extras”. And now you want to add to the expectation, driving to MH twice a month to earn their pay.

So, Rick, it seems pretty _ relevant to the issue and this discussion, since others have already included it in the discussion, including you with “wa wa buck up weekend warriors”.

No one is “funding 2 bases”. The Guard pays Boise to be there. They would likely be paying the AF to be there. Different funding- different mission- different budgets. If you don’t want to pay for two different units of Air Force/Guard then you are talking about deleting one of those units- that a totally different topic.

Yet,you say “the mission” can be accomplished with just one base. So what is “the mission” that you are referring to Rick? Cuz, I’m pretty sure the MHAF Base mission is different than the Guard Commander’s mission… but I don’t know since I’m not in their meetings.

By the reasoning displayed above, we dont’ need a Boise airport at all. WE can all drive to SLC. It is the same mission of just getting on a plane to go somewhere else. ha! I’m sure Delta and United Airlines will think that’s a great solution. Look at all the airline carriers that have left Boise in past years. And the current air travel for Boise business people is so wonderful already.

And when HP says they don’t need a Boise campus, those employees can just commute to Palo Alto. Heck, they can even carpool in hybrids. I’m sure HP has the “same mission” there in Palo Alto so it makes sense, right? And ALL HP employees get paid really well so they can afford it. 🙂