If you're talking about "Catch 62" - back in the '80s, Rep. Les Aspin (later Sec'y of Defense under Clinton - relieved after the Mogadishu debacle) pushed for the law that allows military veterans to pay for their military time used toward federal service retirement/pensions. 'Til that law, at age 62, federal retirement was reduced by the years/months of military service used to determine total federal service. At least now, veterans have an option to pay & have those years/months not lopped off. Your complaint is "Throwing out the good in search of the perfect"!
Not exactly. The situation Aspen was concerned with affected only those with both military and federal civilian retirement.
Folks who were not "lifers" were credited with time and did not otherwise have any sort of involvement with a military retirement.
But, I'm glad you brought the whole thing up. The "lifer" military disability retirement system was/is at least as generous as that of the federal civilian disability retirement system. With this change it will become more generous.
On the other hand, when it comes to counting time, a system put into place to trim "lifers" back to the same standards applicable to others resulted in the imposition of an unfair tax on draftees.
Do you think you guys could do these changes for your own benefit without screwing others for once?