The widow of an Alabama airman killed during Operation Epic Fury has revealed that she and her children have been denied some of the benefits that bereaved family members are usually entitled to because the Iran war has not been declared an official war.
“The Air Force recently told me that because we haven’t officially declared war, my kids and I aren’t eligible for some benefits,” Libby Klinner, the wife of the late US Air Force Major John “Alex” Klinner, wrote in an Instagram post on Saturday.
Alex Klinner, 33, had just been promoted to major in January and had been deployed less than a week when the refueling aircraft he was aboard crashed in Iraq in March, killing him and five others. He left behind his wife, their 7-month-old twins and a 2-year-old son.
You have to be really stupid, poor, racist, or evil to volunteer for this military.
Since he was a Major he volunteered likely close to 20years ago.
eh. they were doing similar things back then, except to iraq instead.
Since he was a major, he was an officer and needed to do college first. So he probably joined ar 23. The article said he was 33. Likely in for 10 year.
A bachelors is completed at 21 typically in the US. If ROTC contract in college for Air Force, that counts as time in service.
33- 21 =12 + 4 = 16 years time in service.
The point was, they didn’t join THIS military.
They were transferred from a different military?
My girfriend goes to a different military, you wouldn’t know her.
The US military was totally different 16 years ago, when we were engaged in completely different not-officially-a-war military operations that had nothing to do with oil and were only about democracy
Which military did they join?