by Robert F. Sawallesh
26 October 2004
www.pentagonmaverick.com
Not sure how much the Bush and Kerry camps have focused on the military retiree voters that live overseas. Also, not sure either camp can spell or pronounce "military retiree" or "military retiree health care."
Quiz: Newspapers from which two countries below have pictures of Kerry and Clinton? The numbers of US military retirees that reside in the below countries are listed.
Germany (7,962 US Military Retirees): http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/english/.
Egypt (42 US Military Retirees): http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/.
South Korea (1,735 US Military Retirees): http://times.hankooki.com/.
Australia (485 US Military Retirees): http://www.smh.com.au/.
Spain (695 US Military Retirees): http://www.costablanca-news.com/index.htm.
Saudi Arabia (413 US Military Retirees): http://www.arabnews.com/.
Thailand (377 US Military Retirees): http://www.thekoratpost.com/.
England (UK: 2,631 US Military Retirees): http://www.guardian.co.uk/.
According to the latest DoD report (FY 2003) there are 37,014 US military retirees that reside overseas.