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The families of US soldiers who have died in the US-Israeli war against Iran are battling to ensure they receive appropriate pay and benefits for their loved ones.

Libby Klinner, a widow, wrote on social media that the US air force had deemed her ineligible for additional benefits following the death of Major Alex Klinner, her 33-year-old husband, because Congress had not officially declared war.

He was one of six crew members of a KC-135 refuelling aircraft that crashed in western Iraq in March while supporting US strikes against Iran.

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[–] VirtuePacket@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Illegal, shameful, and un-American.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Yes. We know about trump. But what about the article?

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Huh? Didn't know the Americans had that little clause. My SDB is paid out to my spouse regardless of whether I die in a war.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Fucking disgusting Russia-tier semantics.

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 38 points 13 hours ago (33 children)

please stop joining the military

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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

play stupid games win stupid prizes

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They keep the masses poor and dumb so that they volunteer to play stupid games.

[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

And by propaganda at sports events for their tribal minds, the same control mentality and punching down is common among those groups, sports, military, supernatural, maga, etc.

[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

is it a "special military operation"?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

"special military operation"

Being conducted by the "department of war".

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 81 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If it’s not officially a war, what happens if a combatant chooses not to engage?

I suspect they’d be court martialled as if it were refusing a wartime order.

[–] crazyslinkz@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

rules for thee and not for me...

Duh!

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