Rumor Doctor: Do airmen get a “substandard living allowance” when assigned to other services?
Jeff Schogol sends us a link to his latest investigation as The Rumor Doctor; Do airmen get a “substandard living allowance” when assigned to other services? I figured it was another opportunity to take some inter-service rivalry shots at the Air Force;
The reader explained that when he was stationed at Fort Gordon, Ga., an airman who was also assigned there claimed he was getting a special allowance for living below the standards to which he was accustomed. The airman showed the reader this extra pay on his Leave and Earnings Statement.
My son has been in the Air Force for over ten years and I’ve had the opportunity to compare his military life to my own and I know he’s got it better. In Panama, our infantry battalion was housed on an Air Force base and we enjoyed many of the perks to which airmen are accustomed.
Regardless, discover what the Rumor Doctor learned.
Category: Military issues
I was in a split Navy/Air Force barracks in D.C. for awhile during the early 90s. Night and day. The Navy put three E-4s into a room the Air force deemed suitable only for one. It’s whole different lifestyle over there.
A running joke at USNA when I was there was that at USAFA, “field day” meant vacuuming the carpet.
I remember being on Oki, we’d get up early on Sunday just so we could split a cab to the Air Force chow hall on Kadena. It was our Sunday Brunch at the Hilton. They’re women were better too 🙂 God they hated us. Eventually they wouldn’t even let Marines in their E-Club anymore.
We rigged for a jump into Germany at Charleston AFB one Friday night and got to eat in their chow hall. Luckily, it was Steak OR Lobster night (you couldn’t get both we discovered). Of course, the airman blamed the fact that it was steak OR lobster because of the grungy grunts eating their chow.
By the way, I stole my wife from an airman. Yes, she still questions her judgement.
I once snaked a girl from a Marine. Then the dern fool wouldn’t take her back. I offered to pay, too.
On the flip side, I remember being at Ali-Al Salem in early 2003 before OIF started. A Marine 1Sgt and Cpt. requested permission to bring their guys on base to use our shower trailer and morale phone trailer. They thanked us by literally smashing all the plumbing fixtures to bits, and ripping all the phone connections out of the wall on their way out. Real classy.
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Yep, it’s why we can’t have anything nice.