https://youtube/watch?v=MhTMSuwGlT4#t=16 ...... please watch .. Earning less than $3.00 an hour, Cpl. Jonathan D. Porto, USMC was KIA in Afghanistan in the fight against global terrorism. Seen in video bidding a final goodbye to his wife, Rachel, and their unborn daughter, Ariana. For illustration purposes only, an example of what a Pay Grade E-4 (Corporal/Petty Officer 3d Class/Senior Airman) with more than two years in service, but less than three years, has a base pay of $2,122.80 a month. While those serving in the Armed Forces are available and considered subject to immediate recall at any time, the same E-4 currently earns less than $3.00 an hour. Under the 2015 pay scale, a Pay Grade E-1 undergoing recruit training is paid roughly $2.14 an hour. Other cost saving measures put forth by the Obama Administration were cited by the Marine Corps Times earlier this year, when the White House again cut the Congressionally mandated 1.8 percent pay raise down to a threadbare 1.0 percent. Seen by many military advocacy groups then ans now as yet another attack on the troops, Team Obama is also floating a “proposal to make troops pay an average 5 percent of their housing costs out of their own pockets. And proposals to eliminate the commissary subsidy — and increase consumer prices — at most domestic installations …”
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:02:45 +0000
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