Why are you serving a man./country that won't pay you?
I'm not serving Obama, atleast that's not my mind set. Here's the thing, whether we get paid or not, I still have something to protect, and fight for. If every military personnel just up and said "fuck it", We be in some deep crap, and a lot of lives could be potentially lost.
As long as I will be getting paid later on down the road for my duties today, that's fine. Because, like I said, I have a country to protect, as does everyone else. It is just ridiculous that it has even come into anyone's mind "Lets not pay the military", considering we are in three theaters, and that's taking a huge risk.
As of right now, they are saying we will get a weeks worth of pay on the 15th, and for however long the government is shut down, we will get "back-pay" which is essentially every check we didn't get, with our first check AFTER the government re-opens. I know my back will suspend all debt accounts on the 15th for any personnel relying on the military paycheck to pay their bills. Ie: credit cards, car/house loans, etc. So that'll help, but there has been no word on if any water/electric companies will do the same. If I have to I'll live in the dark will extremely limited water/electric use, just to lower my bill, and that doesn't bother me. I have a savings account, but this is NOT how I wanted to spend the money I've been saving for almost 2-3 years now, for a purchase I was so close to bing able to make.