Pentagon: Cut spending on troops

[Last hard class]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37028501/ns/politics-washington_post/from/ET


Interesting article:

I guess a soldier's start pay is higher than the $571.00 a month less weekly head shaves that I remember.:)

[Richard]

You mean they're getting more than the $87/mo we were paid as a US* PV1? Where do I sign up? ;)

Richard

*US = draftee

[Snaquebite]

*US = draftee

Got me wondering how many of us "draftees" we have on here....

[LarryW]

In '62 I was making $85/mo with three meals a day and housing. Always had money for doing laundry, having a beer and a burger, and bus fare back home. (Oh, how the mighty have fallen! (sigh))

Look up your pay here.

http://www.dfas.mil/militarypay/militarypaytables/militarypaypriorrates.html

IMHO, what they're getting paid now still ain't near enough. On top of that, their living conditions are usually way below Federal prison standards.

[greenberetTFS]

In '62 I was making $85/mo with three meals a day and housing. Always had money for doing laundry, having a beer and a burger, and bus fare back home. (Oh, how the mighty have fallen! (sigh))

Look up your pay here.

http://www.dfas.mil/militarypay/militarypaytables/militarypaypriorrates.html

IMHO, what they're getting paid now still ain't near enough. On top of that, their living conditions are usually way below Federal prison standards.

Gotcha,Larry,I went in Dec 1964 as pv1 and was getting $78.00..........;)

[Max_Tab]

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/defense-secretary-robert-gates-blasts-military-spending/19469040

I agree with some of the proposals, especially fewer generals, but what is up with hosing the military on health care.

Does anyone else find it interesting that this current administration has increased spending on every conceivable area of Government except defense which it is cutting.

[ZonieDiver]

Got me wondering how many of us "draftees" we have on here....

I was RA, but during the "US" time! (Enlisted on 29Jan70 - over forty years ago. Ouch)

[Defender968]

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/defense-secretary-robert-gates-blasts-military-spending/19469040

Does anyone else find it interesting that this current administration has increased spending on every conceivable area of Government except defense which it is cutting.

Interesting no.....sad and disheartening.....yes....but not surprising...I think his master plan is to follow the Clinton "Peace dividend" path and hollow out the military....regardless of the facts on the ground here or abroad. He'll call Iraq a win and pull most of the troops out of there, and then he'll call Afghanistan a loss and pull us out of there. Then he'll start the big cuts saying the global contingency operation is an LE matter, and if I were a betting man I'd say the cuts won't be targeted, just across the board something crazy like 30% maybe 40%. Hope I'm wrong....and that he doesn't get reelected....time will tell.

I think Gates is trying to get out front of it and like you I agree with the fact that we are probably way too rank heavy at the top, but there are better places to go looking to save a few bucks....like welfare for, healthcare for, and incarceration of illegals, then I'd start on welfare in general....but that's just me.

[LarryW]

Gotcha,Larry,I went in Dec 1964 as pv1 and was getting $78.00..........

Yep, you got me, Big Teddy. Why is it that I always had money when I was a stupid kid and now that I'm a stupid old fart I don't?

(Wait a second...never mind.)

[Surf n Turf]

Gotcha,Larry,I went in Dec 1964 as pv1 and was getting $78.00..........;)

Big Teddy,
Also $78.00 a month – cigarettes were a $1.00 a carton, and whisky was $2.05 a bottle, and I always had money in my pocket. What an adventure. :D
SnT