Families Struggled As Coast Guard Worked With No Pay During Shut Down

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Thousands of Coast Guard members were left defending our nation for 36 days without getting paid a single dollar.
They were the only branch of the military to not get paid while their families were at home struggling to make ends meet.
WJZ’s Rick Ritter sat down with a Coast Guard wife in Annapolis who spoke about the devastating ordeal and her fears that it could all happen again.
For most of her life, serving is all Leighanne Ball has known.
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