Well, I am a true patriot for the united states. Its where I was born and raised and is my home... but now its fucking with my wallet. I enlisted a little while ago, expecting to make it up through the ranks and be able to pay for myself. The current idiots in washington have stalmated... and im not geting payed for this month or so it seems. Thats right, I am willing to lay my life on the line to defend freedoms that we hold dear, and yet im not worth a paycheck. Honestly, compared to the majority of spending paychecks to the US military are a drop in the bucket, but they enable us to be able to relax after days, weeks, months and sometimes