The military has taken great strides to increase the pay of soldiers, particularly in recent years.
While British soldiers based in Germany pay income tax and national insurance they have other tax breaks, such as cheap fuel.
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The general said he would personally ask Mr Milosevic for better pay for his soldiers.
And let me pay tribute to the soldiers, yours and ours, who again fight side by side in the plains of Afghanistan and the streets of Iraq, just as their forefathers fought side by side in the sands of Tunisia, on the beaches of Normandy and then on the bridges over the Rhine.
The three charities support injured soldiers, provide tickets to events and pay for breaks for bomb disposal teams.
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Many international companies that get their supplies from Congo directly or indirectly pay the army or rogue soldiers for them.
George Osborne unleashed a fatwa to make teachers and nurses, coppers and soldiers, the low paid and jobless pay for his Treasury catastrophe.
He said they would receive allowances equal to a month's pay immediately, while other soldiers would receive them next January, and other government officials would also see a rise in their salaries.
It claims it needs more money to improve pay and conditions in order to attract soldiers and keep them.
And among the main reasons for the low morale in Myanmar's armed forces is the near-impossibility of career advancement without bribes -- and a disparity in wealth between the soldiers and generals that far exceeds the difference in official pay.
Mr Wannell said the townsfolk did not come out to honour the soldiers "for any political reason at all" but to pay their respects to "those who have given their lives for our freedom".
National Guard soldiers were helping pick up emergency-center workers and retrieve operators for pay loaders, he said.
Soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and evacuated to a Birmingham hospital had, until recently, to pay to watch television.
He has asked the soldiers to act as policemen against killing and looting, but he is even less able to pay them than Mr Mobutu was.
Paul Vallely who though the Scott Vallely Soldiers Memorial Fund conducts holiday gift drives for service members and is building a Fallen Heroes statue to pay tribute to his son Scott and all those men and women who have given their lives in the service of our nation.
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