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One reason: More than half of American troops believe they are underpaid today. In 2009, 87 percent of service members rated their pay and allowance as good or excellent; today, just 44 percent do so.

For good reason, reports the Military Times.

"Congress just approved, at the request of the Pentagon and the White House, a 1 percent basic pay raise the for the troops next year," writes the publication, attributing it in part, to sequestration. "[That's] the second straight year of such a raise, constituting the two smallest annual increases in the 41-year history of the all-volunteer force."

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I work for a large multinational company, and I recognize what Obama's doing here. He's trying to drive up the attrition rate because he wants a smaller military. He took some heat when they started handing out pink slips to people who hadn't even returned from theater yet. It would be so much better if soldiers just got pissed at the brass and refused to re-up. IOW, we're seeing SOP from this White House: "In yo' face, chump!"

A study now needs to be done to determine why it's so high.

I'm thinking 15% of the military is black. Actually, it's probably a higher percentage than that so we may have spotted the first group of blacks to be against The Won.

I do know people all through the services are unhappy with things, besides the issues with deployments. Messing with duty shifts, for example.