>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.
Well put
Sorry, but no matter how deserving our military members may be, the current military retirement system is simply too expensive to be sustainable. Current serving military members shouldn’t be affected by the coming changes, but new entrants will have to understand that things are going to be different — that’s only fair.