Re: Iraq

Regardless of rank.  Priveleges and benefits are the same for all ranks, it's 
just the pay that is different.  Used to be that they had an officers Club 
and NCO club, but most if not all are not all-graders clubs.  Even housing in 
many places is the same.  

Anyway, it's also regardless how the soldier dies, unless it is during a war. 
  The military does give them a funeral, headstone and a plot in a military 
cemetary closest to their home.  Most major cities have them.  But the families 
have to pay for the funeral home, casket, etc.  The bodies are shipped home, 
no escort that I'm aware of.  This helps a lot, but when one considers what 
the 9/11 folks got in comparison...it's basically nothing.

Noreen
zone 9
Texas Gulf Coast
In a message dated 2/3/2004 11:02:47 PM Central Standard Time, 
gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:

Regardless of rank, military division, overseas or stateside duty?  However 
about funeral expenses, assistance in the planning etc?  Are the bodies still 
escourted home by military?  I was sure my son had life insurance in the 
early 
90s.  
Doesn't compare to the 9/11 victims which I could not believe the 
compensation the families rcd there.  If the victims died on the way to work 
by a bolt of 
lighting or drove their car into a wall, what would the payout be?  How can 
the government be responsible for such a catastrophe?   Yet they take minimum 
responsibility for their employees (military)?
    Ceres 

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