Posted on 01/11/2014 5:32:00 AM PST by Carriage Hill
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. After a 30-year military career in which he earned three graduate degrees, rose to the rank of colonel, and served as an aide to Pentagon brass, Robert Freniere can guess what people might say when they learn he's unemployed and lives out of his van:
Why doesn't this guy get a job as a janitor?
Freniere answers his own question: "Well, I've tried that."
Freniere, 59, says that his plea for help, to a janitor he once praised when the man was mopping the floors of his Washington office, went unfulfilled. So have dozens of job applications, he says, the ones he has filled out six hours a day, day after day, on public library computers.
So Freniere, a man who braved multiple combat zones and was hailed as "a leading light" by an admiral, is now fighting a new battle: homelessness.
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Need a PA List Ping.
Sometimes its better to be unqualified than to be over qualified.
Doesn’t a 30 career get you a military pension?
That and two advanced degrees?
Something is missing from the story.
30 yrs—when I served that translated to full retirement.He is living in his van— WHY? Either he has no bank account— or he is grandstanding.
A 30 career soldier, retired at the rank of colonel, has a military pension. Estimated at approx $60K per year. What is missing from this story?
Yes he gets a pension and a pretty good one too
Sounds like there’s some medical issues involved, too.
From the Article
His struggle to find a job after retiring from the Air Force collided with the end of his marriage nearly two years ago.
That will pretty much wipe out his retirement pay, courtesy from the old hag from Colorado....Sen. Pat Schroeder
My guess is a very bitter, bitter woman that is very highly pissed off and full of revenge.
I read it 2x, and it seems that there’s “something missing” from the story.
Something is missing from the story.
I have a nursing degree, but due to a disability I can’t work in that field anymore. I have applied for jobs working behind a cash register, only to be told I’m overqualified. It’s frustrating to say the least.
A 30-year veteran dos not get VA benefits?
Doesn’t he have to be older to start his pension checks?
So his ex, receives part of his retirement, even if she had half, that would leave him with 30k a year.
Military wives receive part to half of the retirement because the military says the whole family sacrificed during the service time.
That's $40,000 and three advanced degrees.
A lot's missing.
Not atypical?? How many of those other 59,999 veterans have a 30-year O6 pension check coming in every month? That is no chump change. There’s more to this story than is being told here.
No. You receive it when you retire.
I think we have a few cherry picked highlights of this story. Got to be a lot more to this.
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