Not trolling at all. My numbers are for total military funerals per year that are performed. These are for regular service members, retired service members etc that have earned the right to a military funeral. Nothing to do with Iraq or politics.
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Right now there are about 1750 military funerals per day across the country. In 2008 it will peak at 2100 per day (if the stats are correct). Most state National Guard HQ's run a Funeral Honors program. Volunteers work 7-10 funerals a day and get a stipend of 50-60$ per day to cover expenses, most of the guys that I know that perform the duty lose money by the time they pay for gas, food, dry cleaning uniforms etc. Severice organizations (VFW, AL etc) also provide the service with unpaid volunteers. Finding any kind of brass players for that many funerals is very difficult, we're not talking small numbers here.
First of all I'm all for Google maps.
How can it be used by Terrorist? Simple, my current base in Iraq shows up quite clearly on it. Using Google Maps would make it a lot easier to attack my facility, period. They've been found on insurgents.
I like Google Maps because I use them here. I'm not part of a high speed combat unit. We have no classified sources (no classified network to access it, only regular miliatry internet). My people move by private security details (which also have no access to classified net). We use Google Maps to plan our movements, high res pictures are perfect for planing our ingress and egress routes, seeing where Iraqi police can block you etc.
Technology cuts both ways, we live with it and deal with it.
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Not trolling at all. My numbers are for total military funerals per year that are performed. These are for regular service members, retired service members etc that have earned the right to a military funeral. Nothing to do with Iraq or politics.
Right now there are about 1750 military funerals per day across the country. In 2008 it will peak at 2100 per day (if the stats are correct). Most state National Guard HQ's run a Funeral Honors program. Volunteers work 7-10 funerals a day and get a stipend of 50-60$ per day to cover expenses, most of the guys that I know that perform the duty lose money by the time they pay for gas, food, dry cleaning uniforms etc. Severice organizations (VFW, AL etc) also provide the service with unpaid volunteers. Finding any kind of brass players for that many funerals is very difficult, we're not talking small numbers here.
First of all I'm all for Google maps. How can it be used by Terrorist? Simple, my current base in Iraq shows up quite clearly on it. Using Google Maps would make it a lot easier to attack my facility, period. They've been found on insurgents. I like Google Maps because I use them here. I'm not part of a high speed combat unit. We have no classified sources (no classified network to access it, only regular miliatry internet). My people move by private security details (which also have no access to classified net). We use Google Maps to plan our movements, high res pictures are perfect for planing our ingress and egress routes, seeing where Iraqi police can block you etc. Technology cuts both ways, we live with it and deal with it.