{"id":28643,"date":"2012-02-07T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28643"},"modified":"2012-02-07T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T15:00:09","slug":"not-balancing-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28643","title":{"rendered":"Not balancing the budget on the backs of the military"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in September at the American Legion Convention, the President promised that he wouldn’t balance the federal budget on the backs of veterans or at the expense of national security, but I haven’t seen any cuts anywhere else in the budget except to veterans’ benefits and defense. Have you? The latest example is cutting combat pay for troops serving in hazardous areas…like in a war. Hazardous duty pay $225\/month, but DoD will start paying by the days that your in a combat area – $7.50\/day. <\/p>\n

GruntSgt sent us a link to Shark Tank<\/a> who reports that one soldier was notified through his MyPay account;<\/p>\n

So I just got a letter from MyPay (the way we get paid in the military), saying that I will only reason Combat Pay while deployed for the days that I take fire or am in a hostile area. Now, as an Infantry Marine, I\u2019m constantly in a combat zone\u2026it may not always be popping off, but for them to take that away from us is bullshit. Now, the aviation tech who sits on Camp Leatherneck, sure, I can see him not getting Combat Pay, but to take it away from the grunts, the ground pounders, the front line of defense\u2026come on, Uncle Sam. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You should go to the link above to see the conditions that have to exist before a servicemember gets his measly $225\/month. Basically someone has to shoot at you or try to blow you up everyday. I wonder if DoD can see how the accounting practices for this pay is hardly worth the savings they expect to accrue from this mess.<\/p>\n

I guess the accounting will have to be handled by squad leaders when they return from patrols. This may be making a mountain out of a molehill, but I guess it all depends on how DoD interprets “subject to” and “imminent danger of being exposed”. good news, though; if you’re killed or wounded, you’ll get your $7.50 for that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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