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Pentagon: It costs $850,000 a year per soldier in Afghanistan
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Urk_VN
Title: Orderly Randomizer
Posts: 337
Registered: 2002-10-30 17:31:32
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Pentagon: It costs $850,000 a year per soldier in Afghanistan
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http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/28/one-soldier-one-year-850000-and-rising/?hpt=hp_t3
And the sad part:
CNN Article posted:
One thing is clear, the soldier impacts only a small percentage of that cost. A typical army sergeant with four years service makes a base pay of less than $30,000 a year.
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Abaddon_Ambrosius
Title: Retired Theurgist TL
Posts: 1,674
Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
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That low salary for a buck sergeant is lame. It should be at least 45k or so IMO.
PS -- that's BASE pay. Doesn't include housing allowance, benefits, etc.
The concept however isn't new under the sun. The army spends a LOT in supporting its troops and in logistics to put you there, supply you, keep you there. Wherever "there" is. There's a reason they call you Government Issue. The Government is spending a LOT of money to put you somewhere to do... something. That's why, when the orders come down, you need to do that "something."
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I wonder what the cost per year per politician is.
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illmyrin
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Registered: 2001-12-25 11:52:26
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Aerlinthian posted:
I wonder what the cost per year per politician is.
I like to measure that in grains of sand.
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Date Posted:
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Urk_VN posted:
CNN Article posted:
One thing is clear, the soldier impacts only a small percentage of that cost. A typical army sergeant with four years service makes a base pay of less than $30,000 a year.
iirc my base pay in 1999 was about 18k, so 1k a year almost every year.
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Moe_Nox
Title: In Moe We Trust
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Registered: 2007-2-4 12:17:56
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I remember a thread a few months ago when someone was saying that soldiers pay should be cut because they were making too much.
I wish I could remember who it was because that's the kind of uninformed stupid that needs to be remembered and mentally evaluated.
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Ptilk
Title: Creepy old pirate
Posts: 2,359
Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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I made 539 dollars a month when I enlisted.
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Ashmaele
Title: Pastor of Muppets
Posts: 1,809
Registered: 2002-1-15 08:30:50
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Ptilk posted:
I made 539 dollars a month when I enlisted.
$798 here. Most of my spending during basic was on haircuts ($4.25 each back then). I had like $1200 when I graduated from basic
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Elocism
Title: Pseudonym
Posts: 787
Registered: 2002-5-3 01:50:00
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marines cant live without air conditioning
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Yukishiro1
Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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We hire truck drivers and send them to afghanistan and pay the contractor 150k a year per truck driver for it, about 100k of which goes to the truck driver.
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