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http://www.g2mil.com/BAS.htm |
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http://www.g2mil.com/BAS.htm Thank you for mentiong this article. I have not read it all the way through yet, but let me paste this particular paragraph which specifically talks about food stamps and should answer your earlier question of why you see "wive" in line for free food... Adding BAS to basic pay helps eliminate this distortion, and will bump many servicemen off the food stamp rolls, since they are only eligible due to a loophole in which BAS is not counted as income. Frequent news stories about GIs on food stamps is bad for recruiting and morale, even though fewer than 1% qualify, mostly because they joined the service with several children in tow. In reality, someone can make $56,000 a year and receive food stamps if they have 14 people living at home. Congress should also eliminate the loophole in the food stamp law in which the value of employer provided housing is not counted as income, so it would be extremely rare for any GI to collect food stamps. Apparently, this loophole was inserted so that household servants to millionaires can collect food stamps to supplement their low wages. However, it is often used by servicemen living in free base housing to supplement their income with food stamps which provides a misleading impression that servicemen are poor.
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you see i'm not all bad dear
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lol, sorry if I gave the impression that I thought you were hun. I just get so aggravated when idiots like some of the people here on jsh think they know everything and come in and do what they can to cause trouble.
And the ones that outright tellyou to shut up and mind your own business, etc when you simply ask a question for others to discuss in the first place? grrrrrrrrr..... thanks for the link, I am going to go finish reading it as it will help give me more arguments to throw at people, lol  
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i thought u would like the info u seem to be into that stuff
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the main thing I have en trying to do tonight (besides have some good stimulating conversation ona subject I am familliar with, lol) is show some discrepancies between fact and fiction with the army, and to get the general publics opinion (if there was a way to keep current military members from posting I would do so as I want the civilian publics opinions) on the discrepancies between married life and single life in the army.
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I think you're missing one of the key ingredients in any servicemember's life. Spouse's have an incredible effect on whether the member stays in or gets out. I see it more as way of appreciation what military spouses do more than anything. There is no civilian equivalent to this, so I don't think anyone can give you a good opinion on without first being in this situation (i.e. a military spouse, NOT a servicemember). BTW, I am in the military and have lived both married and single life in the service as well and much longer than yourself.
I can't believe you would gripe about a special pay that's less than $100 a month given most families do experience losses when a spouse deploys. In the military, just like in civilian life does there are many dual income families, which does require additional childcare. As for housing allowances, ask any military member and they will tell you BAH/OHA does not cover all of expenses it is advertised to cover. |
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Amen to that one cougar.... until you live military, civi's will never know what goes on once you cross those gates....
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