Military Pay Increases going back to 1976:

[George II]

1976 5.0%
1977 4.8%
1978 7.1%
1979 5.5%
1980 7.0%
1981 11.7%
1982 14.3%
1983 4.0%
1984 4.0%
1985 4.0%
1986 3.0%
1987 3.0%
1988 2.0%
1989 4.1%
1990 3.6%
1991 4.1%
1992 4.2%
1993 3.7%
1994 2.2%
1995 2.6%
1996 2.4%
1997 3.0%
1998 2.8%
1999 3.6%
2000 6.2%
2001 4.1%
2002 6.9%
2003 4.7%
2004 4.2%
2005 3.5%
2006 3.1%
2007 2.7%
2008 3.5%
2009 3.9%
2010 3.4%
2011 1.4%
2012 1.6%
2013 1.7%
2014 1.0%
2015 1.0%
2016 1.3%
2017 2.1%
2018 2.4%

This year wasn't the first in over ten years, and it's also not even close to 10%.

[Wounded Bear]

1. If only the minimum wage had followed that arc...

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. +1

[kimbutgar]

2. Could you site where you got those numbers?

Because when I show them to the maga I know he will say they are made up.

[George II]

4. Here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_pay

[maxsolomon]

7. Thanks for that Citation.

nt

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

5. Bookmarked.

[maxsolomon]

6. So? The Truth is irrelevant.

The lie got halfway around the world first, as usual.

[KCDebbie]

8. Holy crap! 14% in 1982?

I joined the Army in Dec 82.

But I wanna tell you, as an enlisted person with a child or two, it still wasn't enough! It's almost 30 years since I left active duty and I'm still quite resentful that I was expected by my government to do so much for so little pay!

But I wasn't old enough to know any better! And that's why the military recruits people straight from their parents home or the college dorm - those people won't realize how little pay they earn for ALL that's expected from them...

I also wonder how military families got by BEFORE the 14% pay increase?!?!

[George II]

14. That was back when inflation was about the highest since WWII. Military pay raises are somewhat....

....tied to the cost of living each year.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Did the traitor allege he gave them their biggest raise or something?

I honestly dont know why any media source bothers to report anything he says or does, unless he does something outrageous.

Wait, everything he does is outrageously bad, so I guess you either cover it all or nothing.

I love how 1 out of 3 people in line with you at the grocery store fucking worship this traitor. Gonna have to be a reckoning with them eventually. They know it, I know it, you know it.

[George II]

10. He said the latest increase was the first in more than 10 years and 10%.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. And now 50 million of us believe that. NO stats from ANYWHERE will change that.

I dont know how to get angrier.

[Soxfan58]

12. What happened 10 years ago?

Barack Obama was sworn in as President. That BS was a direct swipe at a qualified President. But for the Commander in Chief to blatantly lie to the troops is disgusting.

[wishstar]

13. 2009 and 2010 raises were higher in Obama's first 2 years than Trump's raises have been!

Just like the stock market actually performed better under Obama, despite all the Trump hype (balloon that has busted now)