[wny]

send your kids across the border alone...maybe qualify for the $450K

[LucyT]

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Some U.S. Navy sailors have been forced to take out loans after being shorted on pay, reports Military.com.

[drypowder]

Bill O’Reilly’s next book ought to be “The Killing of America’s Military”! Or maybe “The Killing of America”!

[Freedumb]

Can they put Kamala in charge of fixing this problem? I am sure all of these sailors would sleep better at night knowing she was the one that would resolve this after seeing the results from her border crisis.

[OldGoatCPO]

This is not new. Has happened before. Fairly regular occurrence. The real problem is the way the Navy continually reinvents it's admin support systems. The PSD/CSD system worked. However, by the end of the war (from my experience) they were staffed with a lot of civilians as the Navy reduced certain uniform support rates. The detachments are expensive to maintain. Having been in the meetings at Millington as they discussed changes to Personnel support, the emphasis was on cost not efficiency. Even when we had fully staffed unit admin offices with multiple trained uniform personnel the problem as described still existed. Some E-5 or below decides they need a spouse. But, has no savings and high interest loans on a gaming system, computer, car, BS loan from Navy Fed (they are convinced to take while in Boot Camp), or all of the above. Marries and expects the Navy to get him his allowances by the next payday or he will be forced to use his high interest rate credit card to pay bills. Why, because the majority of his pay is already going out in payments. I believe the expression is, “piss poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”

[Waverunner]

There is another problem, as people flee New York and California,and move to Florida, they have driven rent in our area to double in price. I will have to move to another part of the state because the renewal rate on the apartment that is 1 mile from my grandchildren has gone from 1870 to 3200. 3200 might be cheap in NYC, but 1870 was a higher priced apartment here just 7 months ago. Thank you Aholes that won’t stay and fix your state, but flee it and ruin the next place you nest.
And it’s not just in Fla, it’s the Carolina’s and Georgia as well.

[Delta 21]

Pay problems with VHQ/BAQ? Thats never happened before!

[oldtech]

Good thing this never happened during the period of time I served as the lower ranking men never had anything to save. I’m not sure what we would have done, but I would imagine that the only thing left for some would be to go on an extended AWOL. This is an absolutely disgraceful situation! I guess if one deserted & then were caught & put in the brig you would at least have “3 hots & cot”....maybe. Depends on punishment for that offense. Guessing the tatoo parlors & bars will suffer where that may be happening.

[GreyHoundSailor]

Had a Navy pay issue only once - after six months trying to fix it called my Senator. It was resolved in three days.

[Flint]

I was in the US Marine Corps in the early 1960’s. Word then was if the Marine Corps thought you needed a wife, they’d issue you one.

[mabarker1]

BS !!! ENOUGH OF THIS CARP, PAY OUR PERSONNEL NOW !!!

They put their lives on the ready for Us and there’s NO EXCUSE for this to be happening !!!

[notdownwidems]

I remember this carp happening when I was on active duty during the Carter ‘administration’, circa 1980...let’s go joe

[ASOC]

Saw this all of the time in Little Jimmy Carters regime.

The folks overseas were really hard hit and took out loans just to feed thier family...and nobody in CONgress gave a shit.

Everything old is new again. I have stopped recommending any one join the military today. Nobody should have to be an underpaid mercenary....

[BuffaloJack]

In 1970, while in Vietnam, a Viet Cong mortar crew took out our admin hut and all our pay records went up in smoke. It took the Navy 5-1/2 months before they started paying us again.

[Mr.Unique]

In my experience, this is not unusual. Not good, but not unusual.

I went for almost all of 1990 with incorrect pay.

[AppyPappy]

If I were China, I would make sure this happens

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[Svartalfiar]

Funny thing, though, if they make a pay error IN YOUR FAVOR, they’ll be sure to claw it back within seconds of figuring it out!