Comment on DOD-2009-OS-0029-0001

I read this for an assignment in Administrative Law. It's basically rules and regulations regarding military contractors who are hired by the U.S. military services and are deployed outside of the United States. One of the things I found interesting was that there is an Armed Forces Repository of Specimen Samples for the Identification of Remains (AFRSSIR) and that a dental panograph and a dental speciman sample suitable for DNA analysis is required and stored at the AFRSSIR. Contractors must pass a complete health evaluation (medical and dental) within 12 months prior to arriving for deployment. Yet, in these rules you only provide emergency medical and dental treatment. I feel that as a matter of decency, you should provide regular dental and medical checkups as a person would if they lived at home in the U.S. Dental and medical health is important and a necessity to every person. In these rules, it says that "every effort shall be made to identify remains and account for un-recovered remains of contractors and their dependants who die in military operations, training incidents and other multiple fatality incidents. ...remains shall receive the same dignity and respect afforded military remains." I am happy that your rules would treat contractors with the same respect as other military personnel who are serving in our country's military. With that said, please do what you can to bring our military troops back home and out of other countries. We cannot afford the money that is being spent and we need to focus on the United States and our own issues. Thank you.