Still, a military retiree is, for all practical purposes, a CIVILIAN.
Hey, I was in the military, then I got out and I became a Civilian.
Actually, I was in "the real man's Army" and people who weren't in that or something equivalent to it really have no call to criticize any aspect of my civilian years!
But I am saying allow active military to handle more of the jobs on base as it will save alot of tax dollars. My experience with career military men is they are always military...lol. I can attest to the slew of pencil pushers on the base (civillians) making more money than they could have made being a desk clerk in the private sector. Some are so disrespectful to the active duty it is unbelievable. Stand by my post that military life is not cushy and not comparable to what the majority of civillians working on a base endure and by a long cry not as dangerous.