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To: Jim S who wrote (36433)	8/20/2009 2:37:43 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I'll let you field these in the future. It is better to have intelligent answers than my bumbling attempts to address the issues. I will say that the nature of VA budgeting causes odd misallocation of resources. A VA hospital near me spent over a million dollars on new equipment and remodeling only to have that department closed less than a year later. One has to ask if the decision to close it was done without knowledge of the impending expenditure, or visa versa.

To: Jim S who wrote (36433)	8/20/2009 8:55:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

If a very junior GI has a family, and is the sole income to support that family, then it would be rather difficult (despite the housing allowance and the other benefits which are far above most other low level jobs). But soldiers, at least good soldiers, don't stay an E1 or E2 for very long, and its not like most other entry level jobs support a family very well, entry level jobs just don't pay well, the military is not special in that regard.