We’ve got to reform military retirement. It’s simply too expensive in it’s current form to be sustained.
“(A recent Federal retiree and proud of it!)”
and yet you call for military retirement to be cut? There’s a word for people who say such things. It isn’t a very nice word, and I won’t repeat it here. But I would very much dislike to have it applied to me. Apparently you have different standards.
We’ve got to reform military retirement. It’s simply too expensive in it’s current form to be sustained.
Yes military retirement is so good, european vacations every year, Alaska fishing trips, eat out when ever I want,live in a great house, the nicest clothes...............OH........Wait....That was a day dream. Struggle to make ends meet, no vacations either Europa or Alaska, eat out once or twice a month if lucky, live in a double wide that is falling apart and most of my clothes are two decades old.
Where the hell did you get the idea that military retirement is so lucrative?
The average military retiree is an E-6, some college but not a degree, with 2-3 school age children, trying to re-enter the job market at 40 years of age. Not a very easy thing to do especially for those in the Army and Marines who were in combat arms MOS’s. Armor, artillery, and infantry is the backbone of the military but are not skills that transfer easily to the civilian environment. Change the retirement and how will we every get anyone to spend a career in the military in those MOS’s? Yes, military retirement is expensive but by looking at the quality of our military I would say it is money well spent.
>We’ve got to reform military retirement. It’s simply too expensive in it’s current form to be sustained.
Yeah right, right after we reform the handouts to the unions and illegals. Oh, that’s right, they keep these parasites in office, rather than support your freedom. Rudyard Kipling had it right back then, no change now.