White House: 3.5 percent pay hike unnecessary
Troops don’t need bigger pay raises, White House budget officials said Wednesday in a statement of administration policy laying out objections to the House version of the 2008 defense authorization bill.
The year before I went into the US Navy an E-3 was making $180.90 a month. In 1972, the year I joined, an E-3 pay had been increased to $333.60, almost double. We now have a professional army (all volunteers). They should be paid a civilian wage.
UPDATE: Bush threatens to veto troop pay raise and $40 increase in family survivor benefits.
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