From my Legislative Spotlight piece in todays Poughkeepsie Journal, Currently, New York only allows veterans who served during specific eras and in specific regions to buy back service credit. For example, an Iraq vet can buy back credit now, but an Afghanistan vet can’t. A Persian Gulf War vet can buy back time, but one who served in Somalia or Kosovo cannot. That doesn’t make any sense and it’s wildly unfair. The vetoed bill would have fixed that. This bill does more than honor the service of veterans. It encourages the next generation to serve by reminding them that their state values and rewards service in defense of our nation. It also recognizes and takes steps to remedy the fact that military service often takes a person out of the civilian workforce for many of their prime earning years.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:42:00 +0000
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