hurleyjd said:aplusmnt said:hurleyjd said:I was very suprised this weekend. The Grandson that served 18 months in Iraq and is now in Afiganistan really likes President Obama. His quote "Since he was elected we are getting what we need to fight. Also he gave us a raise." This really suprised me as this one was a gung ho Republican. Also the other Grandson that is in Iraq told me when he was home on R & R. He said " I wish they would get off of President Obama's case, he looks to me as if he is only doing what needs to be done. Any way us fighting boys in the trenchs like him." This one voted for the first time in his life in the last election he had just turned 19 and voted for McCain.
Can someone confirm this? Did Obama do something I missed did he sign some bill or something that gave the troops a raise. Did he do something in a few short months that sent them more weapons to fight with?
The way Washington works I would think he could not move so quickly to get the troops more weapons in their hands.
Just does not add up? But I may be wrong, surely there is a paper trail to show what Obama did to back up the grandsons claims? Anyone know what it was?
Gates who is the Secretary of Defense took away some of the predators from the Air Force that they were training with and got them to the Army, Also the better body armor has showed up for the troops. Also the MRAPS are showing up in quantities that are needed. Now I guess Obama had nothing to do with this but Gates has his support and according to the grandsons there is a whole different outlook with Gates. The soldiers get what they need to fight because Gates listens to the Generals and tries to get what they need.
Thought maybe some of that was due to less troops now so more things to go around. But I am no expert just red flags show up when someone is in office for three months or so and things are suppose to be so much better in a place it takes months sometimes to move equipment around.
So not sure if Obama should get much credit good or bad as far as things like this just yet. Like the pay raise that someone posted that Obama approved did not go into affect until 2010 so any raise your grandson got must have been approved by Bush.
Like I have said before, Presidents generally get credit good or bad for lots of things that they really did not have control over. Congress as a whole has lots more power over these details than the President does.