Jim back in 64 I was an Army brat. Back in those days the PX and commissary were cheap. As local off post businesses complained that they were not getting enough on post customers congress and the senate in their infinite wisdom changed how the PX and commissary did business. The PX was forced to start paying for employees and buildings and could only under cut local regular places by 15% (all profits go to MWR). They were not allowed to price things in box stores. The commissary had to go from being part of the GS and having soldiers doing some of the work to all civilian hire and pay for their buildings too plus they still have the 5% surcharge that goes to MWR. By the time I joined in 74 you could get better prices downtown. So they had to raise pay to match the increase in prices. E1 now starts at 1357 for the first 4 months then jumps to 1467. thats a heck of a lot more than 68 bucks!
Kinda funny but the other day an Army general made a statement about there being a discipline problem in the Army. Says it isn't many troop but a few and that commanders need to treat these guys harshly. He went on to say that a big problem was DUI's. He is looking at catching heat because some guy just off of deployment got stupid. The company commander is looking at the same guy who did a great job in a combat zone plus the fact that the unit could be deployed again. Now what commander is going to want to lose a proven battle field performer? So I kinda see the dilemma from both sides. You can't have soldiers killing is getting heat over soldiers DUI's and wants it to stop but I can also he a commander being reluctant to lose a combat vet.
themselves or someone else on the highways. Don't misunderstand me, I don't drink and drive and don't condone it, I'm not trying to justify an SM getting behind the wheel drunk. But I undersatnd where the Chief of Staff
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