open there that some of them do have to pay it back, but when pressed about this after giving that statement, was asked if he might permanently suspend these payments. he says he has to work within the law but left that possibility open. i don t think anybody, including him, wants to be in a position of clawing back bonuses already paid to these families. how did this all happen, jim? with recruiting officers, sp specifically the california national guard, ambitious recruiting goals to meet and offered bonuses to women, men and women, who weren t eligible for the bonuses, which is fraud. people are going to prison for this. the person spearheading this for the california national guard sentenced to 30 months in prison. significant fines there. a bigger issue problem here. the two longest wars in america s history. the military had trouble keeping up with the demands of that.
special operator last couple days. the veto will delay ballistic missile improvement and shipbuilding programs and rail guns and f-35. retaining a-10 which is essential for ground support, new restrictions on transfers of terrorists from gitmo panned defers marines personnel and recruiting goals. pay raises for family personnel are now delayed, god knows how long, and dod support for refugee crisis in places like syria and kurdistan are stopped. implementing new dod new military retirement programs was key part of this. they re not even going to do it now. abby: colonel this, also comes at very unsettling time. according to the washington post our plan to capture isis state capital in raqqa doesn t seem to be going so well. if you re the one in president s office advising him right now, what would you ten him? i wouldn t have said dropping 50 tons of small arms ammo would help kurdish people s protection units, ypdg.
hight of the fighting in iraq, the military services were having a hard time meeting their recruiting goals there was talk of the army breaking and the nation not having enough fighters to conduct the wars. now, as a sign of the times with jobless rates at record highs, more sailors are in the military, forcing the navy for the first time ever to fire petty officers. in august, the navy will convene a board to review cases of 16,000 sailors and limbnate 3,000 positions. 1% of the force. there is no retirement and no severance for them. congressman mike kauffman is on the house armed services committee and serves in the marine corps! this is unusual to this degree. there are times we have had the economic down tups where certainly retension has gone up. pew it has never gone up to this level. the air force retension rates are also up. six-year high. causing it to convene a similar reduction in force or
pentagon has spent $100 million in the past decades and she wants to ban them. the army says it alone got 40,000 recruits from them. they say prohibiting the army the flexibility to invest marketing and advertising dollars in the second largest sporting venue in the nation would severely limit the army s responsibility to reach its recruiting goals and build for the future. it s not every day you see thousands of people marching on the wisconsin state capitol building, so these images certainly got our attention. these people are state workers and their supporters and they re angry about a proposed change to their union rights. what s happening here? reporter: well, candy, this is a proposal that came out last week. we had a new governor that was elected at the end of last year. he took office in january. and he has proposed some pretty serious changes to the way the state deals with labor unions, and these people are really
ii pushed congress to enact the national school lunch program. well, they appear to be victims of their own success because now, according to this new study by mission readinesreadiness, af ex-military people, 27% of people between the ages of 17 and 24 are unfit for military duty because they re too fat. now, it s not exactly a problem at the moment because all of the services are up to the recruiting goals, but go down the road 15, 20 years, maybe to 2030, and it could become, according to mission readiness, a national security program. this morning we talked with retired air force lieutenant general norman sipe about the problem and asked him what needs to be done as far as school lunches go. well, we need healthy choiss. we need these whole grains. we need the fruits, we need the vegetables, those type of things, and we need to increase the amount of money we spend daily on the child. right now it s about $2.68 per meal. by adding money to the child