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The meal cost is also means tested    At $15 a day, that's what, $460 a month? but the allowance is $460.25/month
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Frosted Flake posted:
im old enough to remember that they made troops buy their own armor
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Feb 13, 2024 21:16
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I never realized officers get less than enlisted for meals I hope somebody got fired for that blunder
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Frosted Flake posted:The meal cost is also means tested lmao its not even at cost, its with a 33% markup
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Feb 13, 2024 21:17
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whats in a night snack
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Good thing food isn't used to calculate inflation, or this would be a pretty stark admission  10.78% difference
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Frosted Flake posted:DESIGNED FOR THE LAW ENFORCEMENT WORLD, MULTICAM BLACK IS A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE EVER POPULAR MULTICAM CAMOUFLAGE PATTERN AND THE NEWEST ADDITION TO CRYE PRECISION RANGE. Hey guys do you see that bright orange thing in the woods over there
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lmao they pay extra to eat on holidays????
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Hatebag posted:lmao they pay extra to eat on holidays???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvUxPIoZf4g
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Frosted Flake posted:"Historically, the military provided both housing and food as part of a service member’s compensation. As of 2002, all service members receive a Basic Allowance for Subsistence to pay for their meals per the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual food cost index. lol, lmao even. Guess Rummy really did bring the corporate mentality to the military. No one wants to work anymore and no one wants to commit genocide to enforce American hegemony anymoee
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This thread is like that Bradley movie, but constantly, and about everything.
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Feb 13, 2024 21:25
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Oh man whats next have ticketmaster run USO Shows
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Boat Stuck posted:This thread is like that Bradley movie, but constantly, and about everything. Free poo poo on a shingle is lostech.
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Feb 13, 2024 21:27
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worth pointing out that you don't even get your initial uniform issue for free. it all comes out of your paycheck, and if you need a replacement uniform item(a new cover, blouse, boots, whatever) that's also on you.
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Feb 13, 2024 21:28
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Admiral Bosch posted:worth pointing out that you don't even get your initial uniform issue for free. it all comes out of your paycheck, and if you need a replacement uniform item(a new cover, blouse, boots, whatever) that's also on you. Are you loving kidding me Yanks?
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Admiral Bosch posted:worth pointing out that you don't even get your initial uniform issue for free. it all comes out of your paycheck, and if you need a replacement uniform item(a new cover, blouse, boots, whatever) that's also on you. that and car loans
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i remember going to a navy base mess hall as a cub scout and they had really good chocolate milk (from a machine!) so maybe the food is worth it
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Frosted Flake posted:Free poo poo on a shingle is lostech. The government provideding services and not letting the free market profit is Communism and we're Anti-Communist so we can't do that. Also the Communists are making eveything our society needs.
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This has big "early scene in Black Hawk Down when the supposed veterans tell the new guys they don't need to pack their MREs and night vision goggles because they'll be back in 10 mins anyway".
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Admiral Bosch posted:worth pointing out that you don't even get your initial uniform issue for free. it all comes out of your paycheck, and if you need a replacement uniform item(a new cover, blouse, boots, whatever) that's also on you. lmao what the gently caress. it's like peeling an onion made of scams
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Frosted Flake posted:Are you loving kidding me Yanks? You have to pay for your de-lousing haircut in basic training too lol
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Ya'll do remember troops need to pay for their own medals right? Cus they do and it's loving hilarious.
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KomradeX posted:The government provideding services and not letting the free market profit is Communism and we're Anti-Communist so we can't do that. Also the Communists are making eveything our society needs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhz5xCnxVFY 1967: "Believe it or not, this is an Army fishery" "US Army officers begin the checking and supervision every step of the way, from catch, to fillet, to the packaged final products" 2024: 
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Hatebag posted:lol they get charged for eating at the loving mess hall?? lmao Al! posted:lol wait they have to pay for their own lunch while deployed? thats hilarious KomradeX posted:Lol that the army doesn't even feed you for free anymore. It rules how pervasive Capitalism has become. Lol that the furthest left any of these idiots can think is be an anarchist Al! posted:lmao its not even at cost, its with a 33% markup Hatebag posted:lmao they pay extra to eat on holidays???? All of these come down to the same thing: the army privatized the mess hall to a contractor. Said contractor needs to make a profit and loves its captive audience / 0 risk investment. The contractor needs to employ civilians to provide said food, which it must pay more on holidays, so they increase their prices to compensate.
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it's funny that "what they're going to charge them for their kit next?" is closer and closer to the literal truth https://www.newsweek.com/soldier-blasts-biden-after-getting-charged-gear-he-left-afghanistan-1845627 He continued: "They want to charge me $500 to $1,000 for gear I was ordered to leave in Afghanistan two years ago because as the last two birds were sitting on the tarmac ready to leave, there wasn't any room for extra gear, extra weight. Therefore, we were told to leave it. Some lower-level dudes including myself were like, 'No, this stuff is expensive. I'm not leaving this. I'm gonna get charged for this when it's time to leave.'" https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5198332 The U.S. Army had a message for 1st Lt. William "Eddie" Rebrook: Before he could leave the Army, he had to pay for body armor vest he lost. Medics destroyed the vest because it was soaked with Rebrook's blood when he was wounded. The Army demanded $632 to replace it. Rebrook's friends helped raise the money. After a senator asked questions, the Army promises a refund.
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Frosted Flake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhz5xCnxVFY It just reinforces how much Marx was right. They will sell you the rope you use to hang them with
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Owlbear Camus posted:it's funny that "what they're going to charge them for their kit next?" is closer and closer to the literal truth This mfer bled on government property!
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They returned my vest to me with 8 magazines full of ammo and 2 grenades which I had to sneakily place in the amnesty bin in the middle of the night, but charged me $75 for a lost flashlight and destroyed nomex glove.
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Frosted Flake posted:They returned my vest to me with 8 magazines full of ammo and 2 grenades which I had to sneakily place in the amnesty bin in the middle of the night, but charged me $75 for a lost flashlight and destroyed nomex glove. Sounds like the Canadian MOD needs to get some McKinsey guys to optomize profit extraction
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one man can afford a gun, the second man cannot. if the first man falls, take his gun, because his estate going to get charged for the gun going missing
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Oh good. I was starting to worry that there would be a nuclear war again. Good thing to know that when they press The Button, the only thing coming out of the silos will be a poof of dust and a flaccid burp.
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Owlbear Camus posted:it's funny that "what they're going to charge them for their kit next?" is closer and closer to the literal truth How is this surprising when goons paid for and sent body armor to troops during what was it the 2nd gulf war?
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In practice, enlisted dudes living in the B's get a meal card and eat for "free" (you technically get BAS but it gets automatically deducted so it never hits your bank account anyway) at the DFAC. The big issue there is when your brigade's DFAC is closed on the weekends and they say "go to second brigade ya turkeys" or you miss dinner because of gently caress gently caress games or whatever. It sucks but it never really seemed so much as you were "paying" but rather people not living in the barracks actually got the money in exchange for having to pay at the DFAC (but they also get housing allowance, which you didn't get if living in the barracks). We always complained at how often we never really got to utilize the DFAC because we got off late or everything was closed etc and pissed and moaned that we should be paid the balance we didn't use at the end of the month. What was the issue identified? Were people being deployed and not actually having a dining facility to go to? Justin Tyme has issued a correction as of 23:12 on Feb 13, 2024 |
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GlassEye-Boy posted:How is this surprising when goons paid for and sent body armor to troops during what was it the 2nd gulf war? never forget 
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Al! posted:lmao its not even at cost, its with a 33% markup $$$
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Gripweed posted:does anybody have that video of the guy asking the Australian army man why Australia needs a big navy to protect trade with China from China? Utopia extract requested and delivered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgspkxfkS4k
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Atrocious Joe posted:Captain Chodaw of the USS Eisenhower needs to be charged for cringe and war crimes i hope ansar allah sinks the uss soyface
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Yeah, pay isn’t great for US enlisted troops. An unmarried 22-23 year old Sergeant would only make about $62k/year or so depending on zip code in a pretty cheap part of the US, like military bases in the southeast or whatever.
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 Well well well, look who's back to take the King's shilling.  Room & board* , at 30% more pay. *some terms and conditions apply
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