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My question is how do they derive the true costs for SMs and families like stress, depreciation of minds and bodies, wives who have difficulty finding employment, and death.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
SSG Robert Mark Odom - I am going to make an assumption they think their is a linear correlation of military vs civilian jobs.
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Then, why aren’t there lines of recruits in line to enlist? Does a hamburger flipper makeing $15 per hour more or less than an E-1? Guess who works a shift and goes home?
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SSgt Terry P.
MCPO Roger Collins Someone making $15 an hour 40 hours a week makes $600 a week or $31,200 a year and goes home after his shift --an E-3 makes $22,630 - $25,510 a year according to his years of service and maybe gets to go home sometime if he isn't deployed.
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Hilarious because everyone else looks at total compensation vs just pay. Lets see what that amounts to. And what civilian position did they compare an Infantryman to? One big issue I spotted right off the mark is todays troops are paying out of their pocket a LOT more for medical care and other items that I never had to pay for in the 1980's........which of course takes away from the gross pay used in the study.
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