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So after all this time of service, the military/government has finally found a way to say thank you for serving. They now make it tax free when serving overseas. Sounds good doesn't it. But just like everything else, there's always a catch. It's more to make us look one way while they start to take away something in another direction. Yes. I'm a reservist. And no, I'm not in this for the money. Although without it I would lose my home and everything I've worked so hard for in the last 10 years. We have been away from home now for 6 months training to deploy to Afghanistan. Because of being away from home we receive an allowance. Which helps us in many ways. Almost everyone travels home on weekends to see there family. And that money covers your fuel there and back. For some of us its more then 14 hour round trip. But instead of giving us that money. They have decided to place us under the "posted" category. Now unlike a soldier who is posted. Our families do not live near us. And we cannot go home to them every night. All I know is that I'm still happy I paid all that money to go see my family, but it really sucks that the military/government has decided that we are not good enough for that allowance. And not too put down regular force at all. I mean. If I knew I was going to lose that money from the start. I would have defiantly moved my family up there for the 6 months and fought for all the benefits that I should have been entitled to.