This is an important amendment to advance the readiness of our fighting force and save precious taxpayer money. Repeal of the policy Institute Last summer by then secretary of Defense Ash Carter without any input from members of congress which allowed transgender individuals to serve and be recruited in the military. This policy is illconceived and contrary to our goals of decreasing troop readiness and addressing budget shortfalls of the past. By recruiting and allowing individuals to serve openly in our military we are suggesting tax subjecting taxpayers to high medical costs including an average of 130,000 per transition surgery lifetime hormone treatments and additional surgery to address the average 25 of individuals who experience complications in addition to possible Mental Health issues and cost of training. The surgeries alone are estimated to cost one point 35 billion over the next 10 years and that is with the assumption of only 30 of individuals in transition. That money co
This is an important amendment to advance the readiness of our fighting force and save precious taxpayer money. Repeal of the policy Institute Last summer by then secretary of Defense Ash Carter without any input from members of congress which allowed transgender individuals to serve and be recruited in the military. This policy is illconceived and contrary to our goals of decreasing troop readiness and addressing budget shortfalls of the past. By recruiting and allowing individuals to serve openly in our military we are suggesting tax subjecting taxpayers to high medical costs including an average of 130,000 per transition surgery lifetime hormone treatments and additional surgery to address the average 25 of individuals who experience complications in addition to possible Mental Health issues and cost of training. The surgeries alone are estimated to cost one point 35 billion over the next 10 years and that is with the assumption of only 30 of individuals in transition. That money co
The two countries never signed a peace treaty after world war ii. Translator we have to put an end to this abnormal situation in our generation. Vladimir and i have confirmed our strong determination to do that and express our commitment in a statement. We have agreed to begin talks on a special system for joint Economic Activities on the four islands. This is an important step towards the conclusion of a peace treaty. Translator Prime Minister abe has proposed setting up a special mechanism for joint Economic Activities on the islands. Its important to use the mechanism as the basis to move closer to a final resolution of the peace treaty problem. If someone says russia is prioritizing economic relations and putting the conclusion of a peace treaty on the back burner, that isnt true. For me, signing a peace treaty is most important. The leaders say the Economic Activity could involve Industries Like fishing, tourism and health care. Japan refers to the islands as the northern territor
Commanderinchief . If youre a active military, dial in at 2027488000. Retired military, 2027488001. You can also join the conversation on twitter if you like at twitter. Com cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. Good morning to all of you. And well get to you calls here n just a minute. So lets begin first, leo shane, with who participated in this survey and what questions did you ask . Guest sure and thanks for the invite here. This is a survey of our readers who are. Currently serving members. We asked some pretty specifically, you know know given specific matchups, who would you vote for . We wanted to really get some opinions on the likely matchups for this fall. So we asked them if forced to choose between donald trump and Hillary Clinton, who would you choose . And the results were pretty striking. 54 of our respondents said they backed donald trump and 43 said they backed Hillary Clinton. 21 said forget it. Im not going to vote if those are my who only choices. Host and why did they s
Youve got no place to go, nothing to do better than that. Hey, dave. Dave lets just skip everything and start with that. Wow. Amazing. 75 degrees out towards the coastline this morning. It is a beautiful start to the day. And a couple of spots we have some leftover cloud cover from last night. No biggie, though. I think well hold off on the rain until late this afternoon. Look what just popped up over the horizon. Its beautiful, lake mirror, 75 degrees with that sunshine this morning. Were going to go back to 91 with the rain chances of 40 along the coast. 50 inland. Primarily late in the day into the evening hours. Vanessa all right. And we have a big trouble spot brewing here northbound 75, Hillsborough County. A crash were seeing here live in the area of i4 is blocking, say, just one outside lane at this time in the northbound direction but causing traffic to back up towards the area of the selmon expressway pretty heavily so drivers can take a few area of concern is from i4 back to