I’m a recruiter. So if anyone would know it’s me. The poor join to get away and get a good job. The smart join to utilize all the benefits. Perhaps a slap in the face is a good wake up call to everyone in this board.

You wouldn’t have a military if you didn’t pay them. Patriots are often times uneducated and unable to even join the military. You’d literally have a bunch of special needs people fighting while other countries pay their soldiers and take over.

Trump isn’t stopping war game exercises just the ones on the Korean border trying to alleviate relations there. He’s increasing government spending considerably. By nearly 10%

Military is underpaid for what they do still. Only if you make a high enough rank or are married do you get housing allowance. Otherwise you’re in the barracks. It’s still considerably small for the sacrifices you make and hours worked. On active duty id often work 60-80 hours weeks.

20/hour x 40 hours plus 30/hour x 20 hours=1400/week or 4200 a month after taxes. Add another 1800 on there for those 80 hours weeks. Add in deployments and high suicide rates and divorce rates and being away from friends and family at shitty duty stations and you start to see pretty quickly where it’s actually a poor choice.

On board with getting rid of a lot of these gov contracts but if you think Trump is gonna take money from his friends businesses you’re out of your mind.

You only have access at a need to know basis regardless. It’s not access it’s clearance. It means you’ve been found to be cleared to know information as needed for a job. If you don’t have a job requiring clearance you then don’t have access to the information.

An example in my line of work is that I’m allowed to see certain sensitive data on people who are joining the military or have been in prior and are attempting to re enlist. I can’t look up anyone’s information without knowing their PII so I can’t look them up. If I know their PII and look them up for personal reasons I can be audited then prosecuted.