Military Pay: Will Government Shutdown 2011 Affect Soldier Pay?

We got paid half our paychecks today, I'm set to deploy in a month and I was supposed to be taking my pre-deployment leave to see my family in less than ten days, due to the loss of the money I RELY on, I will not be able to afford doing this. See you in a year family. 

Deal with it

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This is insane. We are getting ready to PCS in the next couple weeks and we have yet to sell our current home. Come May 1st we will have to house payments. We also have 2 young children. Both in diapers and one requiring formula. Not getting paid is really going to be a detriment to our life. My husband and I can live off minimal as far as food in concerned but my children can't. I am so terrified about what is going to happen. I can't believe the government is doing this to us and all the other thousands of people who will be affected. I don't agree with abortion but I also don't think it should set priority over peoples livelihood.

I think it is a sad, sad thing when we as tax paying citizens have to sit by and watch the overpaid beaucrats make life altering decisions that personally affect our military families.  These are families that make sacrafices and put their lives on the line on a daily basis only to be advised that they may be doing this for no pay.

Is this part of a pre-planned conspiracy to make ourselves vulnerable to a foreign government takeover? Do you really think our military will be all out to fight for a country that has turned its back on them while the decision makers don't defend anything but rake in the cash and cause up-risals between political parties? Are we looking for nationwide rioting? these are very good questions to consider when we look directly at what we're really facing. I guess we're next up on the list of government protests. Keep your eye on the eastern sky.

To Jlbrown: Yes, I DO believe our soldiers will continue to do their jobs at half-pay, because that's what they do.    And remember people, it's not just soldiers getting the shaft here.  Government workers will get NO paychecks (not even the half-pay that soldiers will get).  Think about what that includes - Human Services workers who are watching out for the safety of the nation's children, for example. Some government employees may be overpaid do-nothings, but a great deal of them are of great importance to this country and it's citizens. And FYI: The Senate passed a bill proposed by Barbara Boxer of California that would suspend Congressional paychecks in any government shutdown, but the Republican-controlled House has blocked it. 

This really pinches reading the comments of families of the Soldiers. I can very well imagine the life of a woman who is only dependent on husband's check and living alone for months. Apart from this all, it will harm and will have a negative impact on the "War on Terror."