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United States security has been in large part attributable to the hard work and sacrifices of the US Armed services. For Independence Day weekend, we focus on proposals to cut the pay of US Military Reservists in half with US Marine Corps Reserve Major General Andrew Davis.   Next we look at legal challenges veterans face when they return home with US Army Reserve Colonel Gary Port, Esq.   Port has played a role in ongoing legal clinics for veterans along with Steven Lee, a Hofstra University Law Student who also joins us Looming cuts to US Military Reserve salary Efforts to get the budget in order have resulted in severe cuts to many federal and state programs. Now legislators may be putting the US salary of our military reserve forces on the chopping block as well. US Marine Corps Major General Andrew Davis acknowledges that the military needs to tighten its belt, but argues that it is penny wise and dollar foolish to reduce the pay of our military reserves, the bulwark of our national