Today you will not be receiving your regularly scheduled paycheck. To the best of my knowledge, this marks the first time in our Nation’s history that servicemembers in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid during a lapse in appropriations. Read more: https://t.co/5tLzGhK2nt pic.twitter.com/J2o00zWm0k

— Admiral Karl Schultz (@ComdtUSCG) January 15, 2019

I’m thinking the last time the US military had a lapse of pay that even approached this?

The US War of Independence, when the troops routinely had issues getting paid.

But please, do go on about how Trump is making us safer.