Is the government expected to work without pay if people are expected to serve in the military even without pay?
If the government can break a GI bill contractural payment level can an enlisted break military contracts?
When I got out of the military the Houses voted and passed decreasing our GI bill contracturally promised GI bill payments for completing our term of service Honorably and for paying into the system. They claimed it was for economic reasons. That year they did not vote down their automatic 3 percent pay increase either. If the government can do this with Reservists can an enlisted person just cancel a military contract without any consequences also. We eventually got it back with more as the troops for the war in Kuwait was supplied mainly with GI bill students. After the war because of the money Kuwait gave the government they gave part of it to the GI bill students such that there was a slight increase in the original contracturally promised amount. I was also told that there is not any such thing as slavery in the U.S. So why did people who decided to get out of the military have to go to Canada?
Your question is flawed by the assumption that existing benefits are "contractual." There is no contract. Quite some time ago the Supreme Court ruled that the obligation to serve exists independently of the government's obligation to even pay salaries. You might have joined up with that expectation, but that does not make it a contract.
when under contract an enlisted or officer corp cannot legally sue for redress from the government and after they wont release their copies to you of your 201 file makeing a law suit harder they delayed my enlistment after the vietnam era benefits so i wouldnt get the college and medical
I would prefer not to have to kill at all, but hey! If I've got to do it, I'd rather be paid for it. However, my sense of duty and honor is above mere pay.
2006-09-06
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