Who would have thought the juicy girl bar owners had their own lobby? More wives in Korea is the last thing they want or need:
Service members headed to South Korea on assignment in the next few years may not be taking their families.
A Senate subcommittee voted Tuesday to put on hold a so-called tour “normalization” program that would greatly expand the number of tours where dependents are authorized to accompany a service member at government expense.
Tour normalization has been a big morale issue, especially for people assigned to South Korea following a combat deployment that resulted in a long family separation.
Preparation for more accompanied tours requires an expansion of community facilities, which would be done as part of a larger rebasing program.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s readiness panel voted Tuesday to delay construction projects in South Korea, Guam and elsewhere in Asia until the Defense Department provides a master basing plan, according to Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., the panel’s chairwoman.
The freeze was part of the 2012 defense authorization bill prepared by McCaskill.
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., said there may be more restrictions added to the bill later, when the full Armed Services Committee takes up the 2012 defense policy bill. Webb has been working with Sen. Carl Levin, D-Ill, the committee’s chairman, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the committee’s senior Republican, on an initiative that raises doubts about basing plans for South Korea, Guam and Japan, especially Okinawa.
Filipinas gotta earn a living too!