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Speaking to a group of 200 soldiers in Baghdad, Defense Secretary Gates drew Army cheers of “Hooah” from the crowd when he eased their concerns about the government shutdown and said “first of all, let me say you will be paid.”

Gates’s comment came during a question and answer session when one of the soldiers about how the government shutdown might affect them. He then joked, “as a historian it always occurred to me the smart thing for government was always to pay the guys with guns first.”
politicians can’t agree on the budget the federal government will shut down tonight at midnight. And if it does, nearly 75-thousand active duty Georgia military personnel will feel the pinch immediately.

When the government shut down in 1995, members of the military kept working and getting paid. Not this time says Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaking Thursday to soldiers in Iraq.
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The Defense Finance and Accounting Service provides responsive, professional finance and accounting services to the men and women who defend America. DFAS pays about 6 million people and in FY 2009 made 7.8 million travel payments, paid 12.8 million commercial invoices, made $553 billion in disbursements to pay recipients, and managed $426.7 billion in military retirement and health benefits funds. For more about DFAS visit http://www.dfas.mil.