“The current system is ... unaffordable...” said Richard Spencer, Marine!!

"unaffordable" (aka, "we're broke!") means military people will necessarily receive less money (ie, costs).

I note yet again that they aren't talking about reducing taxpayer welfare/wealth transfer to the MIC corps (that's always affordable), only about reducing payments to Human-Americans.

The military isn't a for-profit corporation, just like the govt is not a for-profit corporations, so mimicking for-profit corporations crushing of employees is

And don't forget, that the (military's) war is just (corporate-dictated, predatory) diplomacy by other means. The UCA and capitalist wealthy don't have their kids (or themselves) in the military, but they sure as benefit from having the military garrison and the planet safe for their capitalistic predations.