One wouldn't associate a stipend or pension program with a volunteer fire company, but a number of departments across New Jersey have had to resort to these measures in order to beef up their ranks of volunteers.
Towns across New Jersey may soon have to offer health insurance coverage to their volunteer firefighters, an unintended factor of the Affordable Care Act's continued implementation.
This blew me away. Maybe I’ve been living under a rock too long.
But I’m not surprised that there has to be some kind of psychological kink at work that causes one who’d join any kind of emergency service; and intentionally cause a calamity...
Given the fact that more and more soldiers are pulling more tours of duty and suffering for it, do you think it’s time to get the hell out of Afghanistan? (Take the poll below).
And on a side note, do you feel today’s soldiers are more prone to PTSD than at other times…...