My sister arrived back from Afghanistan tonight. For those of you unawares, she was serving a 6 month military term over there. For those of you wanting to see her now that she's back, we're planning on organising a get together for everyone.
After picking her up from the airport, we all went out for dinner to have a chance to talk and grab some grub.
She told us stories of the desert - the sand, the sand mites, the spiders, the locals, etc, but one in particular got me.
We had asked her if she had gone to the Tim Horton's on the main base. She said she had and then preceded to tell us an interesting tidbit about said establishment.
She said that those working at the Tims recieve the same medal she does for her stint of service in Afghanistan and they leave with about 10,000 more dollars than her.
I was shocked.
Now I know that those who go over there to serve coffee are doing a good thing, but I don't consider them to be doing as an important or dangerous job as our military personelle and I definatly do not think they should be getting paid more.
In other words, our government needs to step it up.
For that to happen, we all need to step it up and let the government know that we think our military is important.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we should follow the American's lead and make our military the top priority; I'm saying we should at least invest enough so that our guys are appropriatly compensated.
Otherwise they might all quite and go work for Tim Horton's.
1 comment:
Wow. Who woulda thought...
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