15 July 2013 - The budget cuts are affecting the entire military including many civilian employees.Mechanic Matt Thompson is one of those employees. He repairs military vehicles at Joint Base Lewis McChord, near Tacoma.
For the next 11 weeks, he'll be forced to take Fridays off, losing 20 percent of his pay.
"I scrape from paycheck to paycheck as it is," said Thompson. "(Not having that 20 percent), that's huge. I still haven't figured out how I'm going to make that work," said Thompson.
snip Thompson spent eight years as a sergeant in the Army, and another nine years working on base.
"I understand that they need to make some cuts and they need to recover some money from somewhere, but the people that are only making a little bit. Getting their mission accomplished every day shouldn't be the ones losing money," said Thompson. read more>>>
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