The military are hardly overpaid, considering their duties. Their operational schedules and deployments are even more frequent than they were 5 years ago. They come back from a 6-8 month deployment, and in just 6 weeks are back to frequent underways. In less than a year, many of them are back on another deployment. It is very hard on the families. Sometimes they miss the births of their children. Imagine missing 6 months of your one year old’s development?
Sometimes, the kids don’t even know them when they return. Sometimes they return to find their wives have been cheating, moved out, bought cars/run up the bills…not saying this couldn’t happen if they were home, but being across the world with sporadic email and minimal phone calls, makes it much harder for them to know what is going on.
Many of these guys/ladies work very hard, and if there are unresolvable problems, they are administratively separated.
