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There are the constant hubris over pay and benefits but is the course we are on will cripple the military once again. Back in the 70s and 80s military pay was shameful and hampered by a Congress that really does not like us. Some support the military and this comes from both parties. I got the help I needed so I get the need to help the common man and the poor.
I chafe at the notion that a strong military is not important and that our country is special in some ways. What is your take?
I chafe at the notion that a strong military is not important and that our country is special in some ways. What is your take?
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Posted 11 y ago
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I think the current military salaries are about right. I was there, SSgt (Join to see), in the 70s and 80s. It wasn't that bad then ... We made it through.
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Cpl Brett Wagner
CW5 Scott Montgomery - You (the general "you") always make it through with what you have unless your a politician. Just like I said I have taken pay cuts over the past four years that add up to $15,000 but I had to adjust my spending unlike congress. When American citizens have less money in their budget they adjust their spending, when the American government has less money in their budget they just take more money away from the American citizen.
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We made it through and I understand the Savings and Loans scandals were not and could not be President Carter's alone. But I disagree that it was not that bad. It was and in the first two Reagan years we got raises of 10 -14%.
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For everthing we are asked to do, I think we all should be paid more, across the board!
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I'm thinking that, in order to say that military pay is crap, you must have come from an upper-middle class background.
For those of us "trailer-park" kids, joining the military was the best thing, financially, we ever did.
Even Guard...college tuition waivers, FTA, military scholarships, Space-A, AGR, ADOS...
I simply don't understand the complaining regarding military pay-either way. If, suppose, you stepped down in life, financially, why did you enlist? And, more importantly...how do you have the right to complain.
Reconcile this dilemma for me, and I'll send you 1% of my GI Bill :)
For those of us "trailer-park" kids, joining the military was the best thing, financially, we ever did.
Even Guard...college tuition waivers, FTA, military scholarships, Space-A, AGR, ADOS...
I simply don't understand the complaining regarding military pay-either way. If, suppose, you stepped down in life, financially, why did you enlist? And, more importantly...how do you have the right to complain.
Reconcile this dilemma for me, and I'll send you 1% of my GI Bill :)
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I came from a family where parents barely scraped by and never took a dime from the government.
Before I joined the Air Force, my wife, daughter and I were living off of $400.00 a month.
With all of that said, making ends meet as an E-3 with dependents was often difficult and I often felt under paid. But, we still made it.
This really can boil down to where you are stationed. High cost of living area can really hurt.
Before I joined the Air Force, my wife, daughter and I were living off of $400.00 a month.
With all of that said, making ends meet as an E-3 with dependents was often difficult and I often felt under paid. But, we still made it.
This really can boil down to where you are stationed. High cost of living area can really hurt.
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To put ones life on the line daily while deployed several times for over a year each time, I don't think the word "overpaid" quite fits.
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I got too much!! Earning half of what the civilian sector was wayyyy too much, after all I didnt do anything...I didnt protect this country, I didnt live in a fart sack in a hole in the ground in the dead of winter like civilians do...nope I didnt go on field problems for 30 days, or deploy for a year at a time like civilians do.... Why did I wait so long to become a civilian????
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I enlisted in 1973 to avoid a Draft Number of 13. Got to pick my MOS or I would have been an 11 BB stacker. I posted my L.E.S. in the other thread and I still have every L.E.S. for all six years. $210 Net / $327 Gross the first month but there was a $60 Advance pay so I could fly home for my first anniversary. I always worked at a car lot wherever we were (Except Korea) and I sold the hell out of cars to military personnel. We lived an awesome lifestyle.
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I am quite biased and not sure I am objective enough to answer this question logically. As I am retired, I think I am underpaid. That is simply mu opinion. I selected not sure, as we have so many benefits, even as retired service members that they make up for the less pay.
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