without because of washington. vivian greentree's husband is overseas while she works and looks after two young children. >> we have spent a large amount of the time this morning speaking about what we would do if he doesn't get paid and how to react to that with our own finances, and i know it is a conversation that has been had through e-mail, texting and facetime, skype for military families all over the country. >> reporter: many live paycheck to paycheck. at fort campbell, kentucky, continuing worry. >> the bills are due, and you can't tell the electric department, hey, i got an iou. >> reporter: washington knows that the troops are unhappy and so the republican-controlled house passed a measure to keep paying the troops in the shutdown, but the senate has yet to act. and for america's veterans, the outlook is more dire because of the other crisis, raising the debt ceiling before the government runs out of money. >> if it goes longer than a few