[Thane_Banquo]

AS much as I love our veterans and respect them for defending freedom, they don't have the right to double-dip. You either get your pension from the Department of Defense or the Departement of Veterans Affairs, not both.

[norton]

"Retire in early to late forties then work to normal retirement age for private industry and collect from military, social security, and a full retirement equal to someone who worked forty plus years in private life.

Private industry is CUTTING benefits to the rest of us (Big Time!).

Those 'reduced' benefits don't sound so bad after all.

Notes:
A VA rep once tried to get me to apply for disability for fungus, and I'm not sure about "service related heart problems".
If lingering PTSD is cause for benefits there are a whole lot of us who got told there was no such thing who should be asking for compensation. And, remember that class action suit over Agent Orange?
Anybody see a dime out of that one?.
Aside from avoiding the late seventies - eighties politically correct military & self serving doo-doo that brought us up to black berets and ship-board maternity wards; the most financially damaging decision I ever made was getting out & staying out.

[matrix]

I believe that any gubmint employee, other than the military, can draw both a retirement and an appropriate disability compensation, too. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.