MARRIED MILITARY SPITS ON SINGLE SOLDIERS - LET's HAVE ONE PAYOUT PER SOLDIER

From November 10, 2007 ON AIR JUDGE WYLD SHOW - Radio Talk

Excerpt from show prep notes. On air content may have been more or less. Not journalistic or debate notes.

MILITARY Demographics…..
What is the problem with DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE MILITARY? The MEDIA has missed the REAL Story....

I’ve heard about the issue when some people in the media want to rile people up across race or gender lines. Let’s just talk about the subject along married versus single differences.

I was a single soldier.
Every going away, every coming home, every family day, every after hours holiday dinner, every promotion and award in front of the unit standing in formation, was as a single soldier.

Sometimes it hurt. It always felt empty. It always was a hollow departure, a hollow coming home.

I do not think the Army takes care of single soldiers. Think of the dollars spent on families activities. Why?

Why should the military encourage families?? There is a lot of money spent per married soldier and as good a job as the spouses organizations do, they are serving a GREAT need to babysit each other back home, to send creature comforts to the troups etc... These are awesome groups struggling for resources and doing great things with them.

But they are only needed because the military has married people in it and the taxpayers are paying for all that overhead of the family but somehow even that isn’t enough.

Where is the same ‘per soldier’ expense for the single soldier. Single people have lives, they need continuity. They need to maintain a home, house, yard, pets, social networks while they are away. When they come home they don’t want to start all over like a hobo coming off the streets.

Where is the support network for singles. I don’t mean throw them a beer party or a singles dance. I mean real, at home support.

We keep wanting to give families money for their kid’s college. I don’t get that. I don’t care what a parent’s job is. No kid is owed money for a college education whether its from mommy and daddy or a substitute for mommy and daddy. Work for it like most of the kids out there.

Lets get that money in place for single soldiers to maintain the home. They need trusted property managers for their homes,
there is no spouse (faithful or otherwise) feeding the dog and houseplants,
there is no spouse regulating the heating and cooling at the place,
there is no spouse doing the finances.

These single soldiers need a military-paid personal assistant to maintain their affairs.

We support the spouses yet the single soldiers are told that their lives are not worth saving or maintaining at home.

Sincerely, JUDGE WYLD