I’m currently active duty army 11B (E-4), I can’t afford to raise my family of just 2 with my income alone, we are expecting a baby in a few months and I’ve been stressing about making ends meet. I started to think about all the other military service members struggling to meet ends meets as well. It’s not fair our income isn’t matching inflation and we still have to continue to do our job every year even though it’s getting harder for these living conditions.
This pay raise shouldn’t be for all ranks due to the higher ups getting paid too much honestly, it would be fair to take some moeny away from E-9 / 0-5 + and give some money to the E5 and below but especially to the lower enlisted E-4 and below.
This doesn’t include the fact we need more money for BAS for food, there’s no reason as to why I only get $300, I can’t even by chicken and rice for the month for my family with that allowance
Thank you for your time reading.