When I was in, the commanding staff would pull every trick in the book to save a few bucks so they could spend it elsewhere. I see Bush & Rummy are doing the same, from the very top.
Always trying to save those pennies for tax-cuts! I'm glad people, soldiers and their families especially, are waking up!
The way we're treating them is depressing and obscene.
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On edit: Just found this via WRH
According to Army Times, the GOP-controlled Congress has:
# Canceled a "modest proposal" to increase the benefit from $6,000 to $12,000 to families of soldiers who die on active duty;
# "Roll
back recent modest increases in monthly imminent-danger pay (from $225 to $150) and family-separation allowance (from $250 to $100) for troops getting shot at in combat zones";
# Refused to consider "military tax relief... that would be a boon to military homeowners, reservists who travel long distances for training and parents deployed to combat zones, among others";
# Passed pay raises for "some ranks," but "cap raises for E-1s, E-2s and O-1s at 2 percent, well below the average raise of 4.1 percent";
# Accepted a $1.5 billion cut in the military construction request for 2004: A proposal by Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, to restore $1 billion of the $1.5 billion cut by "cover that cost by trimming recent tax cuts for the roughly 200,000 Americans who earn more than $1 million a year... instead of... $88,300," was defeated.
Army Times: "Taken piecemeal, all these corner-cutting moves might be viewed as mere flesh wounds. But even flesh wounds are fatal if you suffer enough of them. It adds up to a troubling pattern that eventually will hurt morale Ð especially if the current breakneck operations tempo also rolls on unchecked and the tense situations in Iraq and Afghanistan do not ease."
http://www.rense.com/general39/sup.htm
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