The story is probably hyperbole
Useless article. What are the pay grades involved? How many dependents? How much are they cutting back by? They can’t afford a turkey or they’re only getting an 18lb vs. a 24lb turkey like last year?
These Military Families give up so much. Always has and always will.
They get treated like 2nd class citizens and they still keep plugging along.
God Bless them....they deserve better
Just wait until Christmas, when millions of families who have been kicked off of their health plans have to budget for hikes of hundreds of dollars a month for health care next year instead of spending for holiday shopping. If I were a retailer, I’d be canceling orders.
I curtailed a lot of things when I was a young sailor. This isn’t news.
Pound for pound, turkey is one of the cheapest foods you can buy and so are the rest of the trimmings. There is nothing particularly expensive about the traditional Thanksgiving meal unless you are talking about the wine and fancy desserts.
No doubt our military families are having trouble making ends meet. It was like that when I served back in the early 1980s. I just think Thanksgiving is a poor example to use here.
Total compensation for someone who has been in the military for 6 years ranges from a low of about $43K per year to a high of about $71K per year. Based on the article claiming “mid grade” service members I suspect that the poll asked leading questions.
I served for 20+ years and the only time my compensation was such that I had to curtail anything was when Jimmy Carter was President, inflation was running at 18% and we were used as pawns in a two year budget battle.
The rest of the time I was paid pretty well overall.
The families cited several ways of being more frugal this year. Some 29 percent vowed to reduce traveling, 23 percent would stick to a set budget and 22 percent said they would spend less on food.a. Airfare this time of year is outrageous. No biggie there.
I haven't heard any of my Soldiers say anything like this article mentions.
With no disrepect to the military, the “symptoms of suffering” discussed in the article are NO different than the challenges facing almost all of us.
I can,t buy food for thanksgiving either, but i know some one who is an unwed mother so she will have a plenty for the whole family.
Dad spent 30 years in. We never missed a single turkey, and that was when the military made far less.