April 26, 2004

Support The Troops Who Read Our Comic!

Posted By Chris Crosby at 2:05 PM

We got a couple E-Mails from people in the military I thought I should share. I won't give away their names, just in case they're on a top secret mission or something...

I just wanted to say that if you're going to make fun of the military,
at least get the facts straight. When I got disabled, and processed out
after 9 years in, they paid a couple thousand dollars to move my stuff home.
They do that for everybody. Even guys who get bad-conduct discharges get a
bus ticket to where they joined the service from.
My positive comment for the day, the bear freakin' rocks :)

And here's the other...

I just started reading your comic, and would like to let you know that I
like it, not entirely sure why I do, but I do, and that's good enough for me

don't know how familiar ya'll are with the military, but this line jumped
out at me:
"The government didn't pay for that?"
you might be suprised at what they don't reimburse us for, but that is one
of the things that I believe is paid for

anyways, thanks for the comic, I look forward to following it in the future
Airman First Class ______ ______

Thanks for the E-Mail, guys! I think it is awesome that we have military people reading our little comic. In all seriousness, I support the troops 100% and would likely be performing for them in a USO show like my idol Al Franken if I was famous and had any talent.

With regards to the issue in question, Sawyer's plane trip home wasn't paid for because he is very, very unlucky. If he was a regular soldier, I'm sure his trip would've been paid for, but everybody in the military hates him for some reason. Even his commanding officer gyped him by awarding him an unnaturally small bear. It's a wacky comic strip, the connection with reality is wafer-thin. Though I was partially inspired by the fact that some soldiers have had to pay for their flights home for R&R leave, a problem apparently solved recently by Operation Hero Miles.

Speaking of supporting the troops, MoveOn.org has a great new ad comparing John Kerry and George W. Bush's military records. I hope it gets all over the TV. For the life of me, I can't believe that any troop would support Bush over Kerry. Like the troops in Iraq and elsewhere right now, Kerry literally KILLED OUR ENEMIES WITH HIS OWN HANDS and GOT WOUNDED THREE TIMES in defense of America... yet FRIGGIN' DICK CHENEY (the man who "had other priorities" during Vietnam) has the AUDACITY to say that Kerry is weak on defense because he didn't vote for a couple pork barrel weapons bills over 30+ years, or that he cast a protest vote over the $87 billion because Bush is too much of a greedy asshole to make sacrifices himself by cancelling a tax cut or two for the incredibly weathy during wartime. Can you believe that shit? I can't.

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