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I know I'm not the only CAG currently serving in the military, and apparently not the only one deployed currently. So feel free to show your faith in our government regardless of what side of the line you fall on.
First off, thank you congress for actually getting shit done in a timely manner and making sure I and other get paid on April 1st, 2011.
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Back to the matter at hand, it is downright degrading to think that our "service" to this country is in fact that, a service. Bull shit. Am I proud to serve? Yes, very, every time someone walks up to me and thanks me, I imagine doing this for 20 more years. I love the feeling I get an I get a sense of actually doing something good with my life. Everything I have seen in the middle east, the good and heartwarming, to the pain and sorrow of loss have yet to leave me with a day of regret for the past two and a half years. But expecting us to do it without getting payed is appalling.
We have bills to pay, the military doesn't pay for the minutes I use to call my family back home, they don't pay for my internet I use to do what I'm doing right now. When I'm stateside, they don't pay for my food (I have the rare case of being stationed on a base with no dining facility), they don't pay for my phone bill (which I use to keep in contact with my chain of command -WORK-), they don't pay for my car bill and gas (which is used to go to the military's formations and report to the military's duties).
They pay to put a roof over my head, running water, and electricity. The amenities, right? Well sure, but we'd be eating out of the local dumpster and not be able to coordinate with the other soldiers in the unit to keep the military running.
The belief that, if the military pay is indeed frozen, that the programs the government will put into place will help soldiers and families through the times is horseshit. The cost of those programs will probably be just as much if you paid me my paycheck. Wanting to have a program where I recieve my food and gas makes me feel like I'm back in high school, and not an adult. They wonder why the reenlistment numbers have been going down, it's pretty easy to see why if your in the service, but it seems unexplainable from the other side.
The military is already full of bullshit, retarded
ing commanders and senior enlisted that the people that go up for reenlistment are ing tired of it and say forget it and take the training they have built up elsewhere. Throwing on bottom of the barrel pay would quadruple these numbers easily.
Straight to the matter, cut our pay and have a pissed off, lowest moral in the past decade military that won't want to stick around for another contract.
I know I'm not the only CAG currently serving in the military, and apparently not the only one deployed currently. So feel free to show your faith in our government regardless of what side of the line you fall on.
First off, thank you congress for actually getting shit done in a timely manner and making sure I and other get paid on April 1st, 2011.
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Back to the matter at hand, it is downright degrading to think that our "service" to this country is in fact that, a service. Bull shit. Am I proud to serve? Yes, very, every time someone walks up to me and thanks me, I imagine doing this for 20 more years. I love the feeling I get an I get a sense of actually doing something good with my life. Everything I have seen in the middle east, the good and heartwarming, to the pain and sorrow of loss have yet to leave me with a day of regret for the past two and a half years. But expecting us to do it without getting payed is appalling.
We have bills to pay, the military doesn't pay for the minutes I use to call my family back home, they don't pay for my internet I use to do what I'm doing right now. When I'm stateside, they don't pay for my food (I have the rare case of being stationed on a base with no dining facility), they don't pay for my phone bill (which I use to keep in contact with my chain of command -WORK-), they don't pay for my car bill and gas (which is used to go to the military's formations and report to the military's duties).
They pay to put a roof over my head, running water, and electricity. The amenities, right? Well sure, but we'd be eating out of the local dumpster and not be able to coordinate with the other soldiers in the unit to keep the military running.
The belief that, if the military pay is indeed frozen, that the programs the government will put into place will help soldiers and families through the times is horseshit. The cost of those programs will probably be just as much if you paid me my paycheck. Wanting to have a program where I recieve my food and gas makes me feel like I'm back in high school, and not an adult. They wonder why the reenlistment numbers have been going down, it's pretty easy to see why if your in the service, but it seems unexplainable from the other side.
The military is already full of bullshit, retarded
ing commanders and senior enlisted that the people that go up for reenlistment are ing tired of it and say forget it and take the training they have built up elsewhere. Throwing on bottom of the barrel pay would quadruple these numbers easily. Straight to the matter, cut our pay and have a pissed off, lowest moral in the past decade military that won't want to stick around for another contract.
