“So enlighten us then. Do you work for free?”
Ah, so I said military should work for free now, did I?
The poster said he’d stayed in for the retirement. Retirement in his 40’s, maybe even late 30’s.
A multi-million dollar retirement that we cannot afford to pay.
We can’t afford to pay million-dollar retirement packages for every federal, military, civilian and municipal retiree.
That’s just the way it is.
Taxpayers don’t have the money. Right now we borrow the difference, but that will inevitably end.
Then what do we do?
REMEMBER CONGRESSTHING DEBBIE WHATSHERNAME SCHULTZ ASKING FOR DONATIONS FOR HER POOR STAFF? WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? WIZ ON THAT HUH? LET'S GO AFTER NCO JONES PENSION AND BENIFITS INSTEAD.
In case you are just awakening from a long Coma a war has been declared against our military by our government. It seems to be pointed at destroying it by demoralizing it. Open gays in uniform. persecuting troops in combat with liberal JAGS, or cutting retirement they are doing it however they can do it.
“The poster said he’d stayed in for the retirement. Retirement in his 40’s, maybe even late 30’s.”
Actually, I pointed out that I retired at 50, after doing a combat tour at 49.
“We can’t afford to pay million-dollar retirement packages for every federal, military, civilian and municipal retiree.”
We’ve ALREADY PAID for the military retirement system - unlike any of the others you mentioned. And we sure as hell can pay to keep the guys with 16-30 years of experience in as they continuously deploy to keep America safe. The last Brigade Commander I worked under in Afghanistan was on his 4th year long tour in 5 years. Maybe that doesn’t impress an RFEngineer, but it impresses me!
However, I think I had the distinction of being the only guy in bifocals on the FOB...