Watch your news most days at 6 eastern standard and you have been doing shows on how our military families are suffering and we did between 1970;1974 USN. The interview today stated that they were having to live on $3400 dollars and were not able to feed their children. I looked up the pay of an E5, 2021 Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) and 2021 BAH Basic Allowance for Housing Rate and they should be getting around $5320 a month ($63,896) which might not still be as much as the median income for that area but is still what I would consider a livable wage. Does the military need better pay most definitely.