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Military pay and benefits just cannot continue as they are right now, but that doesn’t mean that military personnel need to get shafted in the deal. But there are some common sense changes that need to be made.

1) To start with, retirement after 20 years is nonsense. Though it is reasonable to limit military service to 20 years, there should be a direct employment conduit into federal service at the same pay grade. No more “double dipping”, however.

This can be called “lateral transfer.”

Assuming they left the military at age 40, they can still log in 25 more years in federal service before retirement.

2) Disabled veterans should still get all benefits, but in most cases through mainstream medical care, not VA, most of which was a boondoggle from the start. Granted, there still needs to be a VA, but as specialized care for veterans that would not easily be found in the mainstream and is tailored for them.

3) The US military is too expensive to use for many low intensity missions. For this reason, the US needs to contract with an offshore mercenary organization to provide boots on the ground. Likely based in the Caribbean, they could recruit from around the world, and their equipment, transport and logistics would be handled by the US military.

Instead of costing billions of dollars, using them would cost in the tens of millions. Their contracts would be strictly voluntary, however, to prevent unscrupulous US politicians using them as cannon fodder.

This would preserve the US military for critical missions.

you say” Military pay and benefits just cannot continue as they are right now”

Really. FAR LESS than the pols in DC. Go after them first.
As to not retiring at after 20 years? Go through what many of them do - whch will guarantee you nightmares for life (if you’re lucky, that’s the worst) - and moving, uprooting family every 3 years and no choice as to where you go.

That said - why don’t you go worry about cutting these funds down first. Then come talk to us.

You think the military gets too much?
$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare
to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify
at: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8

$22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food

assistance programs such as food stamps,
WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify
at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

3.
$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on
Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

4.
$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on
primary and secondary school education
for children here illegally and they
cannot speak a word of English!
Verify
at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt....0.HTML

5.
$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for
education for the American-born
children of illegal aliens, known as
anchor babies.
Verify
at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

6.
$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to
incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

7.
30% percent of all Federal Prison
inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at:

http://transcripts.CNN..com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt...01.HTML

8.
$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on
illegal aliens for Welfare & social
services by the American taxpayers.
Verify
at: http://premium.cnn..com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01..HTML

9.
$200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed
American wages are caused by the illegal
aliens.
Verify
at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRI

13.
In 2006, illegal aliens sent home

$45 BILLION in remittances to their
countries of origin.
Verify
at:. <http://www/..rense.com/general75/niht.htm
total cost is a whopping
$ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS

$338,300,000,000.00

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How about cutting back on gov’t jobs? Obama increased those by 100,000 almost out of the gate. And their starting salary and bennies are WAY above military.

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I would think that cutting the military by 100,000 personnel would save enough so as not to cut military pay any further. But saving money is not the real goal. Destroying our military is. Are you wearing blinders or???

I humbly suggest, since you’re so concerned about our tax money - you start at a few other places that our military...get those cut down to size and get back to us.