The term sarcoma comes from a Greek word meaning fleshy growth. Sarcoma arises in the connective tissue of the body. Normal connective tissue include, fat, blood vessels, nerves, bones, muscles, deep skin tissues, and cartilage.arcomas can develop in children and adults. For children under 20 approximately 15 percent of cancer diagnosis are sarcomas. Although rare, there are approximately 14,000 new cases of sarcoma diagnosed each year in the United States.
Pay Grades. An Army major is classified as pay grade O-4. If he retired in 2015 after 20 years, he received 50 percent of his basic pay of $7,430.10, or $3,715.05 per month. At the other extreme, a 4-star general with pay grade O-10 and 40 years service got 100 percent of his basic pay of $19,762.50 per month. These are the initial retirement amounts.
An E-6's pay begins at $2,281 per month and rises to $3,533 per month, for more than 20 years' service. The pay for an E-7, a gunnery sergeant, begins at $2,637 per month and rises to as much as $4,189 per month, for more than 20 years of service.The pay for an E-8 starts at $3,794 per month and rises to $4,568 per month, for a master sergeant with more than 20 years of service in the Corps.A master gunnery sergeant, an E-9, is the highest enlisted rank.he field grade officers of the Marine Corps, the Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels, are pay grades O-5 and O-6, respectively. Pay for an O-5, a lieutenant colonel, begins at $4,893 per month and rises, after 20 years' service, to $8,070 per month.