Military Families and Soldiers
STOP THE WHINING
It is pathetic the attitude the American press and the American people take for the deployment of the military personnel to engage in battle. Americans are constantly whining about the length of time troops spend defending the nation.
As a taxpayer and a veteran, I have not heard any complaints about the salaries the soldiers receive or have received for years of inactivity. How have they earned the cost for America to maintain a military force?
They receive room and board, and are given a salary; they shop at discount supply centers, which do not meet the market prices that the everyday citizen has to pay. There has not been any complaining about these benefits for non-work. Now, when it is time to earn your keep and get to work for your wages and stop the gravy train, the families of soldiers are not as proud of the choice their children have made.
How can people be so proud of their family members being in the military when there is nothing for them to do and then suddenly think the work is wrong and dirty?
A lot of this attitude is being related to religious value, but scripture is filled with the wars of the world and during those wars at the respective time it is written that the battles lasted for years even decades or longer.
The armies of Alexander the Great, Hannibal, King Arthur, World War I, conquering the American West and the American Civil War all had family members serving long, long periods in battle away from home on lengthy tours to accomplish the mission. These soldiers worked for far less pay than the present soldier without the current family perks.
When the public realizes that the modern soldier volunteered to do this work then they will realize that the nature of the job has Death associated with it. The soldier is taught this, the history books acknowledges the effects of war on a nation and the individual.
How can this nation be secure if the personnel are lying up on the shores, making babies? Prior to engaging in war, the military has the largest Welfare payroll in the nation. People doing nothing getting paid from the public fund. While the rest of the population is struggling to make ends meet. When the ordinary citizen has to lobby to get medical...