Junior Enlisted Military Poised to Receive 15% Pay Increase

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

A key House panel is endorsing a 4.5% across-the-board pay raise for service members on top of a 15% raise for junior enlisted troops in a must-pass defense policy bill that was released Monday.

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... "Members were seeing that some kids are making more money at Walmart or Home Depot," a senior staffer for committee Republicans said at the briefing. "If we're asking young kids to launch multimillion-dollar planes off billion-dollar aircraft [carriers], we should pay them a little more than your greeter at Walmart." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-14 07:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Interesting OpEd image...

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#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-14 07:40 PM | Reply

The daughter-boning orange pedo refers to these service members as "suckers and losers."

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-05-14 07:50 PM | Reply

@#3 ... The daughter-boning orange pedo refers to these service members as "suckers and losers." ...

Probably because they defend the Country against those who control his puppet strings.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-14 09:15 PM | Reply

The lower grade ranks need a pay raise. Inflation has eaten their earnings and those with families are having a tough time making it. Renting on base, while a choice for the enlisted, always has a long waiting line, leaving then to have to pay the higher rents out on the economy. That leaves not much left to pay utilities and food. Many here are having to depend on the food banks just to make ends meet and they are not doing that well at it, even with the food banks.

#5 | Posted by BBQ at 2024-05-15 12:04 AM | Reply

"The lower grade ranks need a pay raise."

I'm old enough to remember when the answer here is don't buy an $80,000 truck.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-15 12:07 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Everyone in the lower ranks of life needs a pay raise.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-15 12:08 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3