What if you hate your family and that's the reason you ran away to the military in the first place? Will they just give you the cash equal of the travel voucher in whiskey?

See, all that money I spent damaging my liver is going to a worthy cause after all.

Cheers!

/Bought a lot of Jack back in my Army days

It gladdens my liver to know the damage it has suffered will be turned to a good cause.

ChuDogg: Thats great and all but they make more than enough to cover travel costs. I understand the plight of single parents but thats life, and the article specifically mentioned single soldiers. What did they spend too much on hookers and blow?

/veteran
//spent plenty of money on travel costs
//money would be better spent on the disabled and unemployed

Why do you hate our troops?

Disabled and unemployed don't make for as much good publicity.

They probably get a tax write-off for it too.

The bootest private (E-1) makes $1467 a month. And, if he's single living in barracks, he doesn't pay rent, utilities, or for food if he doesn't want to. He can afford a plane ticket.

/veteran
//married to an officer
///they make AMAZING money

Only on Fark would a CORPORATION decide to do a decent thing for servicemen and women over the holidays; and everyone comes here to biatch and moan about it. Some say it's too much, some not enough, and some are saying soldiers don't deserve everything we can do for them and then some.

I applaud this and accept it in the spirit in which it was offered.

Bourbon Envy.


/Good Job JD!
//What did Tennessee?
///The same thing that Arkansas.

Tennessee whiskey ain't got shiat on bourbon

devildog123: The bootest private (E-1) makes $1467 a month. And, if he's single living in barracks, he doesn't pay rent, utilities, or for food if he doesn't want to. He can afford a plane ticket.

/veteran
//married to an officer
///they make AMAZING money

E1 pay has almost doubled since I enlisted in '93, that's pretty amazing.

That said, depending on your state of residence you are still paying both federal and state taxes (I was), if you own a car you're paying for that & insurance, if you want a phone you're paying for that, same with cable/internet, plus the various funds you're dropping on cleaning supplies/dry cleaners/uniform items (unless the annual uniform allowance has similarly increased), paying into SGLI, AER, and whatever charities you choose...at least in my day it was pretty easy to run out of money. And that's as a truly single soldier, without alimony or child support to pay.

Now, while I appreciate Jack Daniels (and also that they're donating this money), I do recall two instances where I was short of funds for travel when I was in the service. The first was in basic training (I reported Dec. 1, and 2 1/2 weeks later they let us go home for the holidays); in that instance, I was advanced funds to pay for my plane tickets (and leave days). The second was when my grandmother died, and bless my veteran mother she knew enough to send the Red Cross message to get me home for the services. The message came in during PT formation in the morning, I was in the travel office with an approved AER loan by 10 am, and I was doing mach schnitzel through the desert on my way to the airport at 1:30 that afternoon.

So, yeah...soldiers can run out of money when they need to travel, but yeah, there are already ways for them to get the funds.

/Plus, remembering being a 20-something single soldier, I can pretty confidently say they'd rather have $101,000 worth of Jack.

Can I get in on this? My home station is Fort Campbell. I think it might cost them a good chunk to send me home for Thanksgiving though :)

drake113: That's ironic; I'm paying $100 to spend my holiday season with Jack Daniels.

Then you just gave a roundhouse to the terrorists. Everybody wins!

Hiro Nakamura: Can I get in on this? My home station is Fort Campbell. I think it might cost them a good chunk to send me home for Thanksgiving though :)

You just need to raise a little cash. Soft-Hearted Sam's or Hard-Hearted Hannah's?