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Getting Shot At For $7.50 A Day

I think that most Special Operations personnel are compensated fairly for their service with exception to their retirement. That’s a different story all together.  The fact that an E-9 cook (no offense) behind the wire will get the same retirement as an E-9 Green Beret has always bothered me. Spec Ops special pays should calculate into retirement equations. Period.

Getting Shot At For $7.50 A Day or Two Cups of Starbucks Coffee

For the rest of the regular forces, $7.50 a day to get shot at seems a little cheap.  It’s a shame some U.S. Military families are actually on food stamps.  Especially when a US Congressman makes $200k a year plus benefits and the only hostility they face is an upset mistress blackmailing them with TMZ.

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I think that most Special Operations personnel are compensated fairly for their service with exception to their retirement. That’s a different story all together.  The fact that an E-9 cook (no offense) behind the wire will get the same retirement as an E-9 Green Beret has always bothered me. Spec Ops special pays should calculate into retirement equations. Period.

Getting Shot At For $7.50 A Day or Two Cups of Starbucks Coffee

For the rest of the regular forces, $7.50 a day to get shot at seems a little cheap.  It’s a shame some U.S. Military families are actually on food stamps.  Especially when a US Congressman makes $200k a year plus benefits and the only hostility they face is an upset mistress blackmailing them with TMZ.

What do you think?

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Brandon Webb, a former Navy SEAL sniper and Naval Special Warfare Sniper Course Manager, is renowned for training some of America's legendary snipers. He is a multiple New York Times Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur, and Speaker. Webb is the Editor-in-Chief of the SOFREP news team, a collective of military journalists.

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