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  1. Bubbie Baker, “Life on a Military Base,” MilitaryBases.com, March 8, 2012, http://militarybases.com/blog/life-on-a-military-base/.

  2. Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Department of Defense, “Military Pay Table 2014,” table, January 1, 2014, http://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/militarypaytables.html; AFL-CIO, “CEO-to-Worker Pay Gap in the United States,” Executive Paywatch, 2013, https://www.aflcio.org/Corporate-Watch/CEO-Pay-and-You/CEO-to-Worker-Pay-Gap-in-the-United-States.

  3. Gillem, America Town, 113.

  4. Sarah Stillman, “The Invisible Army,” New Yorker, June 6, 2011.

  5. Alvah, “U.S. Military Families,” 151.

  6. U.S. Department of Defense, “2013 Demographics: Profile of the Military Community,” report, Washington, DC, 2014, 185.

  7. Quoted in Willoughby, Conquering Heroes, 120.

  8. See A. Baker, Life in the U.S. Armed Forces, 121.

  9. A. Baker, American Soldiers Overseas, 57–58.

10. A. Baker, Life in the U.S. Armed Forces, 120–22.

11. Ibid., 117–18, 129.

12. Rod Powers, “Overseas Cost of Living Allowance (COLA),” About.com, September 14, 2010, http://usmilitary.about.com/od/fy2008paycharts/a/ocola.htm; Defense Travel Management Office, “Overseas Cost of Living Allowances (COLA),” Department of Defense, http://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/cola.cfm.

13. In 2011, per-student spending in the military’s school system was between $23,000 and $33,000. U.S. Department of Defense, “Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Budget Estimates: Department of Defense Dependents Education,” DoDDE-360; National Center for Education Statistics, “Public School Expenditures,” Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, April 2014, http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmb.asp.

14. Nicholas D. Kristof, “Our Lefty Military,” New York Times, June 15, 2011.

15. A. Baker, Life in the U.S. Armed Forces, 126–27.

16. Lutz, Homefront, 188.

17. Pamela R. Frese, “Guardians of the Golden Age: Custodians of U.S. Military Culture,” in Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Pamela R. Frese and Margaret C. Harrell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 57.

18. A. Baker, Life in the U.S. Armed Forces, 116.

19. John Ramsey, “Colonel’s Wife Accused of Harassing Soldiers,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, June 11, 2010.

20. Lutz, Homefront, 187.

21. Gillem, America Town, 292n38.

22. Lutz, Homefront, 188.

23. A. Baker, Life in the U.S. Armed Forces, 116.

24. Mitzi Uehara Carter, “Nappy Routes and Tangled Tales: Critical Ethnography in a Militarised Okinawa,” in Broudy et al., Under Occupation, 22.

25. See e.g. Ramsey, “Colonel’s Wife.”

26. David Abrams, Fobbit (New York: Black Cat, 2012), 2.

27. Greg Jaffe, “Facebook Brings the Afghan War to Fort Campbell,” Washington Post, November 5, 2010.