Need a PA List Ping.
Sometimes it’s 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?
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.
I think we have a few cherry picked highlights of this story. Got to be a lot more to this.
Sounds like the dude has severe mental illness. He needs to check into the nearest VA hospital. Apparently his two former wives think that he is ill. Typical media BS story!
Two threads from a few days ago if anyone is interested in reading the comments thereon.
From the Pentagon to life in a van
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3108850/posts?page=73
Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate Degrees Is Homeless And Sleeps In A Van
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3108989/posts?page=53
This story is largely Freniere’s first person account, simply transcribed by the “journalist”. She apparently made little attempt to verify his claims with McChrystal, Hogg, or others he says he knows. Perhaps he is confabulating (a characteristic of mental disorder). If so, the paper did Freniere no favors by publishing this story.
that is truly depressing
This is more common every day.
A lot of businesses do not want to hire over 50
Unfortunately you have a lot of Business Socialists who like to crap on your fellow hard working Americans
I met a guy at the gym who was living out of a big GM four-door enclosed truck with a golden retriever. The gym was 24 hour access and he’d come in and use the facilities and then sleep in the truck in the parking lot. Don’t think he was a vet, but he said he was an RN. The truck was registered and therefore insured. I don’t know how he handled the cops who would certainly cruise through the otherwise empty lot at night. The truck was there all by its lonesome the few times I drove past the gym after hours.
Something struck me as not quite right as an RN should be able to find work in Florida unless there was a problem that prevents hiring; drug use or alcohol, for example.
It seems a precarious life and just one step above being out on the street. I wondered where he got the money for gas, license, insurance and the like. I wonder how many are that close to the edge who really don’t want to be. (Most homeless are that way because of a mental issue. Once I sat waiting for a light and watched a homeless guy viciously try to kill with his fists somebody he could see but who was not, in fact, there. I pity the person who happens to accidently occupy the space he thinks has his enemy in it. It would have been funny, if not so scary.)
This story was posted on FreeRepublic.com last week.
The question most people asked was what does he does with his military pension. If the story is true, he should be making $7,500 a month or so. That’s quite a bit more than my wife and I both live on in our retirement and we do just fine.
Something’s not right about this story. Something’s missing.
This is a very sad story - and I know I’m wrong to post this - but surely I can’t be the only one to whom this came to mind..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhgfjrKi0o
Any person living alone, refusing a roommate, can still find an apartment or trailer and make it on less than a $1000.00 a month, easily.
This story doesn’t add up.
They have illegal immigrants who work cheaper.
We might be getting 30 million more too. We’re going to need a lot of vans.
we paid for two kids in college...we paid for two weddings...we didn't get guarenteed pensions and medical care and housing allowances and signing bonuses....what did this guy do with his 30 years of a solid paycheck?....fancy cars?...vacations?...girlfriends....
not buying the pity party...
we're not talking some mentally challenged alcoholic with 2 yrs of service...we're talking a long time officer.....