marine corps sergeant, on samplg is going to lose $5,000 in food allowances in housing allowances and medical costs. this is ridiculous to happen to our service members who served to dedicate their lives so aggressively and try to serve this country and provide great defense. >> yeah, low pay increases, increase in grocery bills because of what's going on at the commissary, housing costs going up, it's a lot to shoulder certainly. the white house, though, the administration officials came through last night, this is according to "the washington post," and they said the reason for doing it was to improve efficiency in the administration for both insurers and the federal government. so what do you make of that? >> you know, secretary hagel said that the military has this extremely generous benefit that we must rein in costs. if this is so generous, how come we give 1% to those that give to