Originally Posted by gideongallery

IT not just leaving out parts to make his case more compelling it leaving out a part to distort the truth and make a pay increase look like a cut


Before the if you were fighting in the war and you got wounded, but the wound was not sever enough to get you discharged or sent home. you would be treated in country. Your pay would drop like 42.3%.

What the government did is increase the base pay and then decreased the surplus you would get for being directly in the field

over all combat pay went up like 10% and injured but active pay went up like 23%.

There was no cut in pay, by pretending that the base pay increase never happened he turned a pay raise into a pay cut.