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Pentagon: It costs $850,000 a year per soldier in Afghanistan
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Pentagon: It costs $850,000 a year per soldier in Afghanistan
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Yukishiro1 posted:
We hire truck drivers and send them to afghanistan and pay the contractor 150k a year per truck driver for it, about 100k of which goes to the truck driver.
The troop draw downs that have been going on since the 80s were never about cutting costs, though they were advertised as such. It has always been about creating more private sector contracts at incredible expense to tax payers.
The easy evidence is in cost changes in shipping (as per your comment), food service & engineering / maintenance service, especially in forward areas.
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illmyrin
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Registered: 2001-12-25 11:52:26
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The military of our nation has become a profit source for the corporations that have grown up around it. It leaks into our politics. It leaks into our water supply. It's the root of so many problems we all know about but it uses the US military as a shield and terrorism as a weapon against any rational reaction against it's parasitic ways.
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Modeeb
Title: A Ghost In The Machine
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Registered: 2002-4-19 10:48:36
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$850k a year is just insane
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feelips
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I took home $360 per month when I joined. Now I take home over $3,000 per month after taxes.
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Thugoneous
Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
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Registered: 2002-11-2 18:00:54
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Note any lifer service member would love if they rolled all his allowances into his base pay. Sure we would pay taxes but the retirement check would be a lot more.
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Walker_ID
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Registered: 2002-5-29 10:20:09
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
That low salary for a buck sergeant is lame. It should be at least 45k or so IMO.
PS -- that's BASE pay. Doesn't include housing allowance, benefits, etc.
The concept however isn't new under the sun. The army spends a LOT in supporting its troops and in logistics to put you there, supply you, keep you there. Wherever "there" is. There's a reason they call you Government Issue. The Government is spending a LOT of money to put you somewhere to do... something. That's why, when the orders come down, you need to do that "something."
unless ur married u aren't getting housing allowance or food allowance....they will probably receive imminent danger/combat pay but that is hardly anything....altho i do believe anything they earn in the middle east is tax free....and the "benefits" are a joke aside from the leave if ur allowed to actually take it...
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Thugoneous
Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
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Walker_ID posted:
unless ur married u aren't getting housing allowance or food allowance....they will probably receive imminent danger/combat pay but that is hardly anything....altho i do believe anything they earn in the middle east is tax free....and the "benefits" are a joke aside from the leave if ur allowed to actually take it...
There's single house allowance. in the Navy they reserve it for E5 and above and E4's over 4 years, there are other exceptions too. Everything called an "Allowance" in the military pay system isn't taxed.
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Moe_Nox posted:
I remember a thread a few months ago when someone was saying that soldiers pay should be cut because they were making too much.
I wish I could remember who it was because that's the kind of uninformed stupid that needs to be remembered and mentally evaluated.
my neighbor is e-7? (highest grade enlisted)
he makes 60k+ and we pay for his house on top of that.
hes being shipped out on a sub in june i think.
hes due to retire in 10 years.
hes a welder.
soon to be a cook.
for 60k/yr.
hes flat out told me before that theres no way he could afford to live the way he does on civilian pay in the same field.
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Walker_ID
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Thugoneous posted:
Walker_ID posted:
unless ur married u aren't getting housing allowance or food allowance....they will probably receive imminent danger/combat pay but that is hardly anything....altho i do believe anything they earn in the middle east is tax free....and the "benefits" are a joke aside from the leave if ur allowed to actually take it...
There's single house allowance. in the Navy they reserve it for E5 and above and E4's over 4 years, there are other exceptions too. Everything called an "Allowance" in the military pay system isn't taxed.
of course there is single bah/bas .....but u don't collect that when you are deployed as a single person when your housing/food is supplied....and as far as being tax free in the ME i wasn't talking about just allowance...i was referring to everything including base pay and bonuses.
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Well, that's not because the soldiers cost a lot, it's because the weapons cost a lot. Basic artillery rounds run about $10k a pop and an MLRS rocket is about a quarter mil. A combat fire mission can easily top a few million by the time the cease fire call comes in.
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