As soon as those federal employees or elected officials put themselves in harms way, are separated from their families for a year or more, and work jobs which won’t allow them to go home at night I’d agree with treating the military the same.
To add to your list - move as often as every 18 months so you have no home and your spouse has no job; have every promise made to you written in disappearing ink; be unable to write laws to improve your financial condition; have to wait with a sick child instead of going to the front of the line; and the list goes on.
BTW - in 1978 Congress voted themselves a $500 per day tax exemption because it was so expensive to live inside the beltway. Three years earlier that’s what I was paid per month for flying combat in SEA. So, I guess it was 30 times more dangerous to live and work inside the beltway than it was in Vietnam. A question if you please - where are the KIA, WIA, and MIA lists for Congress critters from that era?
And they wonder why no one respects them?