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Senate Reintroduces Concurrent Receipt Legislation, With Strong Support By: Mark Belinsky February 24, 2021 Maj. Richard Star, USAR, poses during a deployment to Iraq. Star died Feb. 13 after battling lung cancer; a bill to provide concurrent receipt for some veterans bears his name. (Courtesy photo) Nine days after Major Richard Star, USAR, lost his battle with cancer from toxic exposure, Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Crapo (R-I...

Legitimate points impeachment. democrats still dont get why donald trump was elected and why he remains popular. katie: see back and forth and having more time to answer questions and go after each other there was a real debate that happened last night. pete: three hours long, katie you watched the whole thing. pete: yeah. combat pay. katie: i will take it. steve: only because she was up late and had to get up early. pete: and had to endure it. steve: and there is elizabeth warren waving at us. ...

More than $60,000, in fact. sam herrs combat pay. >> when he was deployed, basically all the money that he was earning in the military just went into a savings account. he didnt spend it when he was deployed. >> reporter: and dan wozniak wanted that money? >> yes. >> reporter: and julie kibuishi? dan said he killed her to cover his tracks and to frame sam. >> to make it look like he was on the run and he did it. >> he was the one that did it. >> right, and that if he was disappeared completely, ...

>> i said, "lean over. look at it right there." when she was leaned over, i put two bullets in the back of her head. >> reporter: dan admitted scrawling those nasty words on julies back and to splitting her pants with a pair of scissors. the next day, he said he disposed of sams body and then gave another pitch-perfect performance captured on videotape. detectives asked why. >> and your motive behind killing sam was? >> money and insanity. >> money and insanity. >> reporter: sam had more than $6...

>> shepard: well check your steps on the phone. if you go over 10,000, you get combat pay. good to know, shep. youre welcome, peter. i dont know. well be back.

You dont care if you are male or female, we dont care where you go to church. there is trouble out there, you keep the faith, trouble looms and you go towards the trouble to help. >> he said just do your job, dont listen to the noise, dont listen to folks in new york and hollywood, doing news reports because you guys are doing your job. and they are not getting combat pay. and jeff flake, like you said, it is a stunt. brian: he will say anything to make the president look bad on his way out.

Homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen that he did not anticipate military personnel coming into direct contact with migrants. >> they dont need their weapons. the engineers, the soldiers, the marines doing that are overwatched by mps that are armed and the normal force protection wherever they go. >> unlike a deployment overseas, these troops that will miss thanksgiving with their families are not getting combat pay. theyre living in tents and eating prepackaged mres. the president has me...

They are not getting combat pay. most are living in tents and eating -- at first the name of the mission was made very public. operation faithful patriot. the message from top brass here at the pentagon dropped the name and tell the public the u.s. military is supporting the border patrol. the president mentioned the migrant caravan heading to the southern border many times ahead of the mid-term elections but hasnt mentioned it much since. it is still not clear why the pentagon took the unusual ...

Commander, call back tells you if you read all that stuff, youll go nuts. you know what i mean? >> the pentagon will not say how much this deployment costs. early estimates point to a $200 million bill which some worry will be less money to fix planes and maintain equipment. unlike a deployment overseas, these troops are not getting combat pay. they are living in tents and eating prepackaged mrds, even though fast food and grocery stores are nearby. at first, the name of the mission of was made ...

Weapons. engineers have designed the barbed wire. the normal protection, wherever they go. >> reporter: these 7,000 u.s. troops sent to the border will be missing thanksgiving with their families. the pentagon has been unwilling to answer questions about how much this deployment will cost. the pentagon will be paying tpoeurt. early estimates point to a $200 million bill, which some worry will mean less money to fix planes and maintain equipment. >> we will update you on costs as they become know...