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<blockquote data-quote="JRSherman" data-source="post: 1485403" data-attributes="member: 13432"><p>I'm going to have to say this would suck major donkey clangers if it happened. Like Dr. HK says above, and is still true, personnel up to E-6 qualify for food stamps, WIC, and other helper programs like that. </p><p></p><p>My pay when I went in(E-3) was something like 19k/year. When I left as an E-4 after 6 years, it was about 25k. Both of these figures are overall pay, not after taxes, SS, unemployment, all the other deductions. As a married man, it totaled out to about 38k with BAH/BAS. So if I lived in the slums, lived with a crappy car, and ate ramen noodles, I'd be fine. If you lived on base, drove nothing, and eat at the galley(which actually costs you) and don't do anything else at all, you'll be fine.</p><p></p><p>If you're like the average person though, who has a life in spite of their military career, a decent vehicle, and God forbid a hobby(even if it's video games), you're paycheck to paycheck.</p><p></p><p>Take that away and life is starting to suck on an exponentially worse level over time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRSherman, post: 1485403, member: 13432"] I'm going to have to say this would suck major donkey clangers if it happened. Like Dr. HK says above, and is still true, personnel up to E-6 qualify for food stamps, WIC, and other helper programs like that. My pay when I went in(E-3) was something like 19k/year. When I left as an E-4 after 6 years, it was about 25k. Both of these figures are overall pay, not after taxes, SS, unemployment, all the other deductions. As a married man, it totaled out to about 38k with BAH/BAS. So if I lived in the slums, lived with a crappy car, and ate ramen noodles, I'd be fine. If you lived on base, drove nothing, and eat at the galley(which actually costs you) and don't do anything else at all, you'll be fine. If you're like the average person though, who has a life in spite of their military career, a decent vehicle, and God forbid a hobby(even if it's video games), you're paycheck to paycheck. Take that away and life is starting to suck on an exponentially worse level over time. [/QUOTE]
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