This 'n' That; November 26th: Mistaken Value
One General's "Cash Value:" I ran across an article in Military Times recently involving the annual pay of the current Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. In it~ and I'm paraphrasing, here ~was a conversation between President Trump and his White House Chief of Staff [and former General, USMC], John Kelly : Mr Kelly : "[as General Joseph Dunsford appears on the TV screen:] Hey Boss, there's the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... what'ya 'spose he makes a year?" Mr Trump : "Well Skippy, if I had'ta guess, I'd say $5,000,000 a year..." As you can see, President Trump is quite out of touch with the current military pay scales. As well he should be, he's never dealt with folks with so much responsibility that are paid so little. The aforementioned chairmanship could likely be compared to the CEO of a MULTI-BILLION dollar, multi-national corporation. How many said CEOs would settle for what the Chairman, JCS