And our 65,000 troops in Germany? Do you suppose we hire contractors there and pay them in Dollars or Euro?
Personally, I’d bring them home now that the cold war is long gone or move them to Afghanistan/Iraq. Besides, they still get food and shelter provided by the military so it’s not like they could be that worse off. If the military wanted to offer a cost of living adjustment there then that’s fine..but that’s 65k people out of a US population of well over 300,000,000