The package -- approved December 22 for $168 million over three years -- is aimed at keeping Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets and other troops trained to fight terrorists from taking lucrative positions with security contractors or other government agencies, the officials said. The incentives are directed at troops with a good deal of wartime experience and highly specialized skills that take considerable time and money to replace. Only "operators" -- troops on the ground conducting missions -- are targeted, not everybody in the 49,000-person special ops community, the officials said.
More at the link(cut and paste source,sorry)...great idea, I only wish all pro players would get their over-paid salaries cut in half to pay these tough guys... |