Patriotic Federalist

RETIREMENT SHIPPING EXTENSIONS

You must use your household goods move within one year of retirement or try for an extension.  Extension are not guaranteed and are governed by Joint Federal Travel Regulation (JFTR).  Pertinent JFTR portions are attached as part of this article.  If you need the latest JFTR then search for it on Google. The image above is also link to the latest JFTR I could find.

They can only give a one year extension at a time, then you would have to ask again in 11 months.  I assumed this is so, if you forget about it, you will lose it and they don’t have to worry about you any more.  Your thousands of dollars go back in the pot for use elsewhere.  I recommend you set a few reminders in your smart phone or something similar so you don’t lose this benefit.

You can get up to 5 extensions.  This is the time limit to use the funds from the particular “pot” of money from which your move was to be paid.  For an appeal beyond 5 years, see the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHO) for the address to write for you appeal.  Use certified mail or they will ignore your letter and pretend they never received it.

For the first 5 extensions, your letter should contain at least the following:

Name:

Rank:

SSN:

Mailing Address:

Phone #s:

E-mail Address:

Reason for Request for Extension (IAW the JFTR – please see below or attached)

Copy of Retirement Orders******Not the DD214******

Signature:

I have attached my friends extension request.  His was approved (USAF) for job searching.  Extension Request.  I stripped out some of the required information listed above so make sure yours includes that.

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Published February 03, 2013

Chris Kyle, a former U.S. Navy SEAL credited with the largest number of confirmed kills, was one of two people fatally shot at a North Texas shooting range Saturday, Texas Highway Patrol confirmed to Fox News.

Eddie Ray Routh of Lancaster was arraigned early Sunday on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, at the shooting range about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

Capt. Jason Upshaw with the Erath County Sheriff’s Office said Routh used a semi-automatic handgun, which authorities later found at his home. Upshaw said ballistics tests weren’t complete Sunday, but authorities believe the gun was used in the shootings. Upshaw declined to give any more details about the gun.

Routh has not made any comments indicating what his motive may have been, Upshaw said. Sheriff Tommy Bryant said Routh was unemployed and “may have been suffering from some type of mental illness from being in the military himself,” but he didn’t know if Routh was on any medication.

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Krugman Calls for the Coin
January 08, 2013 – Rush Limbaugh

RUSH: Last Friday on Open Line Friday we had a call from a guy who wanted comment on the idea that had been put forth (you might remember this) that the government, someone would manufacture a platinum coin that would be said to be worth $1 trillion, and then the Federal Reserve would deposit that coin, and we’d have a trillion dollars. They just manufacture the coin. See, you can’t do that with other elements.

You can’t do it with gold or silver, because that’s already controlled. But there aren’t that many controls on platinum, apparently. So you could manufacture one coin, and the government could just say it’s worth a trillion dollars. You put that in the bank and then you draw down on it. If you’re the government, you start spending it. It’s a trillion-dollar coin.

So we had this guy calling talking about, “This is crazy. It makes no sense, it’s not founded in anything substantive, it’s not real. It might not even be legal.” Well, the idea is catching on. Paul Krugman of the New York Times loves the idea, which means that on every Democrat website and blog, millions of Americans are going to think that this is a good idea and worthwhile. This was a serious proposal. Paul Krugman, on the New York Times website, said that Obama should circumvent the debt ceiling by having the Treasury mint this trillion-dollar coin.

Just one.

If you could do two coins, it would be two trillion, and so on. And that coin would then be given to the Federal Reserve, and that would free up a trillion dollars of additional borrowing. It would not be used to pay down the debt. No, no, no! It would be used for additional spending. So Paul Krugman wrote, “Should President Obama be willing to print a $1 trillion platinum coin if Republicans try to force America into default?”

And Krugman said, “Yep, absolutely,” and people are serious about this. People on the left think that this is a brilliant idea, including Paul Krugman. So, because of this, the Republicans have introduced a bill that would ban the creation of a trillion-dollar platinum coin. Now, folks, you have to admit that this is the kind of stuff that banana republics do.

I mean, this is absurd. But it has the support of leading leftist Democrat journalists and economists, such as Paul Krugman. A $1 trillion coin! A platinum coin that’s worth probably 85¢ would just be said to be worth a trillion-dollars, and the government could spend it. It would be a trillion dollars we’d found, and we would have to print any additional money. It’s a miracle.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/01/08/krugman_calls_for_the_coin

“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.” –Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 1776)

Happy New Year!

We enjoyed a week of rest and recovery with our families, but we enter this year locked and loaded.

At no time since FDR’s regime has our republic’s Constitution, and the Liberty it enshrines, been at greater risk of evisceration by political “enemies domestic.”
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