You are relating a difference in life experience that is hardly germane to the question asked by the original poster. I sense a personalized anger which is never a good thing. I too am a AF Vietnam era vet and would not mention that fact except you use it as something that supposedly separates (and elevates?) your background as distinctive (and better?) than my own. You do not know me; I have worked outside of government both previous to and after retirement. Fortunately, none of my employmnent experiences have given me a perspective that somehow I was being put up upon to pay for the retirement of another or that anyone I have ever met was a lesser person on the basis of the career path they followed.
So you are a AF Vietnam era vet...my dog stayed home and licked himself and was a Vietnam era dog...You and my dog have the same credibility,,which is zero... in making statements like you did...you are not even a REMF..which of course you don't know what that is.... I think you need to throttle back and STFU.....