correction: so why are we “not” asking them to contribute more for out of pocket? I am speaking as a private sector employee. I have worked with some of these service people who have been trained and they are incredibly talented people who if they had worked private sector jobs would have been paid much more. Instead they have chose to serve our country and for some serve in hopes of getting a college education which they could not afford any other way. These are decent people.
The more PC and feminized our military becomes, the more important that pay, benefits, and quality of life issues become.
It is rapidly becoming another branch of government employees instead of a place that attracts men for adventure and a warrior’s lifestyle.