Gilligan wrote:


Fun and jokes aside, I really respect a country that pays its military a
living wage. Many of our troops collect welfare. The defense contractors
grow rich and our poor guys in the trenches barely subside. They can't even
afford to buy the equipment the gov fails to supply. VA hospitals are a
joke. You'll die waiting to get into one. If the troop pay was raised I
would bet there would be less wars.


There may be truth in that. It is only in the last few years that our
boys have started to get a decent wage. In the past we have had too many
cases of enlisted men and even lower NCO's having to visit the food bank
to make ends meet. Of course we were quite happy to pay a Colonel
$90,000 per annum while reimbursing a private with a wife and and a
couple of kids $14,000, doesn't make much sense when you look at who is
actually at the business end of conflict.

Cheers
Marty