US Special Ops troops could received up to $150,000 in bonuses

In an era of budget cuts, this is pretty shocking. Sure I understand that they've lost a lot of troops to the outsourced military, but that is a problem that the Pentagon brought on themselves so don't come crying to me with an open hand looking for money. This also plays right into the half-baked theory by the right (and maybe more) that the military is why we have freedom of speech and are free, blah, blah, blah. My answer to that is a simple "hell no." What about those who marched for civil rights and did so without guns against hostile environments? There are a lot of people who have acted in the US and helped maintain freedom, the military being but one piece of that puzzle. Unfortunately, those freedoms just aren't what they used to be thanks in part to the Pentagon.