For those saying that they should freeze officer pay, reduce retirement pay or cut medical benefits:
My Husband has EARNED his active duty pay and his retirement. He didn’t get where he is by sitting on his ass for the past 27 years from the time he was an E3 to O4. (He is an LDO)
Mine is long retired, but served on the Midway when they were bringing the ambassador out of Nam. Off the coast of Cuba during the Missile Crisis.
My dad put the flag back up on Corregidor on a telegraph pole under sniper fire when MacArthur retook “The ROCK”. Spent nearly his whole W2 time in the Pacific theater.
Uncle-in-law Ralph did his time in Burma area, part of it under Merrill’s Marauders.
They all more than earned the pittance they were paid, and the bennies they were PROMISED.