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Maybe you better sit down and pop a Xanax before reading any further, because what I'm about to tell you should seriously short you out: not only is the average soldier's salary barely life-sustaining, the combat pay of the average grunt in Afghanistan and Iraq is only $7.50 a day or a measly $225 a month. And to make matters worse, the folks bringing up the rear - hundreds of miles from the horror show - are pulling down the same combat pay as our heroes who daily lay their lives on the line. America was far more generous to...