Obama asks Congress to let him cut drilling reservist pay as much as 50%

Here is a topic very close to my heart and after reading several documents and purposed cuts to reservist pay, I am truly fuming.  I spent many years in the Navy reserves and it was not just one weekend a month, 2 weeks a year or the occasional Presidential recall for Bosnia support or Desert Storm support.  When I was in I worked or went to school full time and worked as many as 4 to 8 hours every day on contracts, letters, orders for deployment, supply ordering, evaluations or whatever my duties where at the time.  Not to mention extra weekends without pay to get things accomplished.  It is truly a crime to even think that cutting a drilling reservist pay would be considered.  I know the President lost many votes just for thinking about this in his budget and asking congress to approve such cuts.

Some Articles on the subject:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/07/PRIMEmilitary-reserve-advocates-decry-drill-pay-cut-070612/

http://waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2012/07/obama-asks-congress-to-let-him-cut-guardreserve-pay-in-half.html