brass, famous and otherwise with behavior problems and criminal problems and other problems is stunning reporting and very dismaying. in the most recent bipartisan budget that was approved by congress, the patty murray/paul ryan spending bill, political surprise when veterans got the short end of the stick. cuts to retirement pay and even to survivor benefits. part of the cuts have been reversed. part of them have not. we tend of the think of veterans as a political group with enough capital to never get the short end of the stick. but recent evidence is making it look like right now at least that's not the case. veterans are not getting what they're asking for and in some cases they're not getting what they have been promised. ahead of tomorrow's state of the union, pressuring in particular hard for today's young veterans and service members to get specific commitments from the president and congress at the time that the president and congress appear willing to break those commitments. is the top level officer corps