<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000">NOTICE: This opinion has not been pre-vetted for approval by Tom Hansen</font><br><div><div><br></div><div>A GREAT reason why the Defense Department budget should be <i>SLASHED </i>not cut!</div><div>We cannot afford to waste government funds to stage basketball games on aircraft carriers!</div><div><br></div><div>Then when you add some other startling figures to waste in the DoD, that have NOTHING to do with national defense, such as the money paid</div><div>to the various coaches at the military academies, it's time to SLASH and use the remaining funding on defense!</div><div><br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><table id="post2205197" class="tborder" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(232, 226, 170); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr valign="top"><td class="alt1" id="td_post_2205197" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(232, 226, 170); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div id="post_message_2205197">The GAO issued a report in September 2003 (publication GAO-03-1000) on Military Education and gave the following cost per graduate for the Fiscal year 2002:<br><br>USMA: $349,327<br>USNA: $275,001<br>USAFA: $322,750<br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><br></div><div>Ask yourself, has this cost gone DOWN in the past 9 years?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Wayne Price</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Nov 12, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Courtesy of today's (November 12, 2011) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); line-height: 21px; "><h1 style="overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; clear: both; line-height: 1.2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Tar Heels top Spartans in Carrier Classic</h1></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); line-height: 24px; ">Basketball: With President Barack Obama watching from midcourt, No. 1 North Carolina beat Michigan State 67-55 on Friday night in the Carrier Classic on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson docked in Coronado, Calif.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); ">Harrison Barnes scored 17 points and John Henson had 12 points and a career-high nine blocked shots as the Tar Heels put their size advantage to good use. Michigan State’s Draymond Green had 18 rebounds.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); ">Fitting with the Veterans Day theme, the Tar Heels and Spartans had U.S.A. rather than their names on the back of their jerseys, which had a camouflage design. At dusk, the game was paused for the lowering of the American flag.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); ">The players gave their jerseys to servicemen after the game.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); "></span>---------------</span></font><br><span><photo.JPG></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; ">North Carolina forward John Henson (31) tries to block a shot by Michigan State center Adreian Payne (5) during the first half of the inaugural Carrier Classic in Coronado,Calif.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 17px; ">------------------------------</span><br></b></span></font><div> <br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div></div></div></div>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</blockquote></div><br></body></html>