What The Pentagon Told Soldiers In Need To Do Is Absolutely Sickening…

The Pentagon is recommending struggling soldiers apply for SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, to help cover their rising costs from inflation.

Yes, that’s the best they can offer for our soldiers who were putting their lives in line to protect the motherland.

Most Americans have already felt the effects of Bidenflation, with many working-class families being forced to apply for food stamps or use food banks for the first time in their lives. Servicemembers have been overlooked for years.

In fact, an incoming junior enlisted Private Second Class (E-2) in the Armed Forces makes only $1,836 a month, which shakes out to $11.48 per hour.

While soldiers are offered various benefits to help them afford the costs of living, including free food at military facilities, soldiers with families are likely struggling to keep up with the rising costs of fuel and food.

“With inflation affecting everything from gas prices to groceries to rent, some Soldiers and their families are finding it harder to get by on the budgets they’ve set and used before. SNAP is a U.S. government program that provides benefits to eligible low-income individuals and families via an electronic benefits transfer card that can be used like a debit card to purchase eligible food in authorized retail food stores. Service members and their families may be eligible.”

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Although the Biden administration and much of the media insists the U.S. is not in a recession, the nation has experienced negative GDP growth in each of the last two quarters, meeting the traditional definition for a recession. In addition, inflation is running at nearly double-digit percentages and food prices in particular have risen at the fastest rate in decades.

Mackenzie Eaglen, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies defense budgets and military readiness, said nearly a quarter of enlisted men and women can’t afford to put food on the table.

“What they need is more money,” Eaglen wrote in a Wall Street Journal column this week. “The Defense Department’s flat-footed response to inflation will result in a real—and cumulative—pay cut for service members.”

Eaglen said the Pentagon received more federal funding from Congress than it had requested, but ignored inflation concerns and short-changed the men and women who serve.

Now, she wrote, “Congress will have to appropriate even more to save America’s troops from the Defense Department’s negligence. It’s the only way to get troops and their families the financial lifeline they need.”

Base pay for the lowest-ranking Army private is $21,999.60, according to GoArmy.com. Salaries for enlisted men and women the lower ranks rise gradually through promotions, but not always by years of service alone.

Sources: DailyWire, Wall Street Journal, GoArmy.com