Marilyn Strickland: “I was particularly troubled to note that on the same day Navy affirmed to their families that the water was safe to…”

I think about how parents would feel if they went to dormitory to drop off their kids at the university and if some of those pictures existed, hell would be raised.

If we were to bring our barracks up to what I call safe, habitable, something that doesn't look run-down or uninhabitable like we saw on these slides, what would the price tag be for that?

Excluding BAH makes a member appear artificially impoverished and diminishes the value of a member's hard-earned military compensation and the value of the member's military service.

You may know our time through records and history books, but I hope you remember that we were ordinary people as well. Our system is imperfect, but it rests on a simple and powerful idea: that people can govern themselves, debate their…