For anyone's information, I am in Afghanistan, and I am not being paid for it. I'm trying to spread that to as many people as I can. My wife was also told (I was not) that the special pays for Afghanistan deployments might simply not ever be paid.
This would be the time that I will step up as a 17-year veteran and ask you kindly to suck it up. You'll get your money, worst case, when you file your travel voucher upon your return. We're all volunteers and the service is larger than us. There are several people there in your position, but we have to keep fighting. While I can not prevent you from expressing your feelings, the fact that you want to spread this to as many people as possible is disturbing to me. We are unique professionals with obligations that most people cannot comprehend and we must behave as such. That being said, stay safe over there and be patient.