Originally Posted by
BDGERJMN
So you're saying you have a right to better standards as an O-4 than as an E-5? Got it...great leadership example, regardless of tradition!
I worked harder, got more educated, took more risks, deal with ambiguity, and make rain. I get rewarded for that, that's how our society works military and otherwise. IIRC, there was a large eastern european nation which tried to use a more egalitarian approach...
Originally Posted by
BDGERJMN
Not true, I know plenty of GS's who have been doubled up in support of 24/7 exercise operations.
Sure, for operations. I've slept on the ground for days or weeks.
Originally Posted by
BDGERJMN
I guess you haven't been paying attention to the economy over the past 9 years and to think that our economic downturn isn't in some way attributable to our current War on Terror or whatever the current administration is calling it, just isn't the case.
GWOT has cost us all in higher taxes, but not catastrophically as far as the average joe is concerned. IMO the recent economic collapse was due to grossly irresponsible behavior in the financial sector, combined with lack of government regulation. The oil price spike was just the match on tinder...the bonfire was already built.