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to echo joshbaumgartner... there are pay boosts for those deployed to combat zones already in place. additionally, there are further pay incentives (flight/sea pay, re-enlistment bonuses, etc.) for those in high-demand or hazardous careers that most other career fields do not enjoy. all those joining the military these days do so with the very real prospect of seeing combat. i think further stratification of pay would both be unfair and a blow to overall morale.
just tossing this into the discussion... but few people realize that the Air Force is making dramatic personnel cuts to revamp its fleet. the average age of a USAF aircraft is close to 30 years old. they're literally denying re-enlistments and cutting large swaths of the officer corps to save enough money to invest in new equipment. from the AF's perspective, increasing salary dollars should be a low priority when they're involuntarily separating so many in a time of war.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
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