[stylin19a]

Not sure what he means about not raising salaries....

Year 2003 Base Pay All Military members receive a "base pay," based upon their rank and years of military service. The FY 2003 pay raise includes a minimum raise of 4.1 percent for all military personnel, with a higher-percentage (targeted) raise (up to 9.5 percent) for some (mostly mid-level officers and mid-level to senior level-NCOs). The new base pay is effective on 1 January 2003.

FY 2004 Base Pay The Fiscal Year 2004 military base pay raise includes a 4.1 average increase for all military members. As with last year, raises are targeted, based upon paygrade with some members receiving 3.7 percent and others as high as 6.25 percent.

[Incorrigible]

The guy quoted stating the information about "Army Times" is Cary McWilliams.  He's a prof at Rutgers University (Marxist hotbed).  He's also a member of "The Communitarian Network".

Their about page states:

In the late 1980s, a growing number of academicians and social commentators began to notice a breakdown in the moral fabric of society. Attributing this condition to an excessive emphasis on individualism in the public sphere, they recognized the need for a social philosophy that at once protected individual rights and attended to corresponding responsibilities to the community. Transcending the stalemate between left and right, this new "responsive communitarian" philosophy articulated a middle way between the politics of radical individualism and excessive statism.

Enough said!

I didn't trust his characterization of the military and that's why I asked.