let’s see, military for 20 years, start pulling in the pension while you are working a GS 9 job, then retire and get your GS 9 government retirement, is that what you meant? Now do you see?
Maybe I’m just jealous and wish I had stayed in the military and started pulling in retirement money in my 40s and then got another government job so I could have a big safety net at the taxpayer’s expense I don’t know
I work with quite a few civilian DOD people with the various services. My counterpart on my last project made about 60% of what I make on the civilian side. My retirement is self funded and on their side, they fund a portion of it as I recall. That still does not make up for their shortfall on the Government side.
I do know that higher up, in Washington and with the Executive Branch, there are folks that make much more than the DOD people — say 80k to 125k but that is not true from what I have seen for the middle management people on the DOD side. I kind of took a confidential survey of a number of them in 2011 and 2012 to just get a clear understanding.
You forgot and then become a reservist for FEMA and travel the CONUS ,stay in Marriott Exteneded stay hotels,get a free rental car plus per diem and if your in a storm ravaged resort area that is damaged have your spouse come stay in you taxpayer funded suit
or maybe get on with TSA and stand around with your finger up your but harassing decent citizens. How about a brown shirt park ranger..Theres a great gig.