[RFEngineer]

"or someone who enlisted at age 18 and retired as an Army sergeant first class at 38, lifetime retirement pay would decline from $1.734 million to $1.626 million, according to House Budget Committee staff. And that $1.626 million would still be filled out with generous military health coverage" That's the number upon which budgets are based. If the number was your number the cuts would be very deep, indeed. So like it or not, nearly everyone retired from the federal, military, state, and municipal jobs gets a million dollar retirement package. This is paid for by people who are working in the private sector. I'd love to cut every budget by the amount you propose - ignoring future colas and everything else. We might have a chance then, and according to you, military retirees would be happy. As it stands there are your aforementioned howls of derision emanating because of lowered future increases (not even cuts).

[dsc]

“...$1.626...That’s the number upon which budgets are based.”

That number is a lie.

“If the number was your number”

Everyone here is telling you the same thing.

“So like it or not, nearly everyone retired from the federal, military, state, and municipal jobs gets a million dollar retirement package.”

I will speak only to the military retirement. We do not get a million-dollar retirement package. Never have, never will.