Thread: If government shuts down, so would troop pay

Lets cut their entitlements also, slash the GI bill, cut other benefits and raise the retirement age while we are at it.

Defense civilian workers would be divided into two categories. “Essential” employees would be required to report to work even though they will not be paid; “nonessential” employees would be furloughed,

This will do a lot for moral, better separate them.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Lets cut their entitlements also, slash the GI bill, cut other benefits and raise the retirement age while we are at it.

i cant tell if you're being serious.

I'm being sarcastic, I don't like this one bit.

thats what i thought, but didnt want to assume. very few people use the gi bill, and everyone(99%) puts into it. im sure it looses some money, but i dont think it'd be that much. and 20yrs is a long time, especially for some jobs that could be deployed for half that time. i wish i deployed more, but my cycle is 6 on, 18 off.

i fully agree about the essential/nonessential comment. they're already going to have unit cohesion problems with the removal of dont ask/dont tell. this would make it much worse.