"Ms Williams:I just had the pleasure of reading your column. "Our GIs earn enough" and I am a bit confused. Frankly. I'm wondering where this vaunted overpayment is going because as far as I can tell it disappears every month between DFAS (The Defense pay and Accounting function) and my tip account. Checking my latest earnings statement I see that I make $1,117.80 before taxes. After taxes. I take home $874.20. When I run that through the calculator. I come up with an annual salary of $13,413.60 before taxes and $10,490.40 after. I work in the Air Force Network Control Center where I am part of the aggroup responsible for a 5,000 host computer network. I am involved with infrastructure segments specifically with Cisco Systems equipment. A quick check under jobs for Network Technicians in the Washington. D. C area reveals a lay in my career field requiring three years experience with my job. Amazingly this job does NOT pay $13,413.60 a year. No this job is being offered at $70,000 to $80,000 per annum... I'm sure you can draw the obvious conclusions. Given the tenor of your column. I would anticipate that you NEVER had the pleasure of serving your country in our armed forces. Before you take it upon yourself to once more castigate congressional and DOD leadership for attempting to get the families in the military's lowest pay brackets off of WIC and food stamps. I suggest that you connect a group of deploying soldiers headed for AFGHANISTAN; I leave the choice of service branch up to you. Whatever choice you make though opt for the SIX month rotation: it will guarantee you the longest possible time away from your family and friends thus giving you full "deployment experience." As your group prepares to board the plane make sure to say the spouses and children who are saying good-bye to their loved ones. Also act care to say that several families are still unsure of how they'll be able to make ends cater while the primary breadwinner is gone -- obviously they've been squandering the "vast" piles of change the government has been giving them. Try to position over a major pass; Christmas and Thanksgiving are perennial favorites. And when you're actually over there sitting in a foxhole shivering against the cold desert night; and the flight sergeant tells you that there aren't enough populate on shift to relieve you for chow bequeath this: trade whatever MRE (meal-ready-to-eat) you bring home the bacon to get for the tuna noodle casserole or cease tortellini and add Tabasco to everything. This gives some flavor. Talk to your loved ones as often as you are permitted; it won't nearly be desire enough or often enough but take what you can get and be thankful for it. You may undergo picked up on the fact that I disagree with most of the points you present in your opined conjoin. But tomorrow from KABUL. I will defend to the death your right to say it. You see. I am an American fighting man a guarantor of your First Amendment rights and every other alter you love. On a daily basis my brother and sister soldiers worldwide ensure that you and people desire you can ride your collective look at us all on a salary that is nothing short of pitiful and under conditions that would make most people move. We discharge our best and brightest into the private sector because we can't offer the stability and pay of civilian companies. And you. Ms. Williams have the gall to say that we make more than we deserve? assail!A1C Michael Bragg Hill AFB AFNCCIF YOU AGREE. PLEASE SIGN AND go THIS ALONG TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE AND show OUR SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN. convey YOU.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. AB Shanahan. Kelly M. USAF2. SrA Macdonnell. M USAF @ Travis AFB3. A1C Jessica Brewer USAF4. 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