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I retired with 20+ years of service. I made all my life's plans based upon what the US government promised me all those years ago. After retirement, those things started to get cut, then cut more, and finally chopped up with a chain saw. Now in my 60s, I am 60% disabled. It took me the past 21 years to get the VA to recognize three injuries from active duty service were actually more than just "strains". After two back surgeries for collapsed discs, and spinal fusion, they finally agreed that it was not just strains. So, up from 30% to 60%. The group that I hired to assist me with my appeals told me I should be at a minimum 80-90% disabled. They will appeal the VA's decision to the Board of VA Appeals in Sodom on the Potomac. That will take about 3-5 years. What they are hoping is that I die before they are all done with this, thus they save my military retired pay, my VA disability pension, and my social security. That way they have a hunk of change to put on their vote buying. They know this guy ain't voting for a bunch of communists. In my time, they trained me to shoot at communists, not vote for them. They have been screwing us in the ground for years. AFTER we are retired, old, used up, there is nothing you can do about the cuts.

When you are still on active duty, you can walk away and tell them to kiss your hip pockets. If I had known back then what I know now, I would have walked and never completed a military career. I tell any kid that asks me now about a military career, to just forget it. Don't do it. The government will just screw you in the ground. I tell them that if they absolutely HAVE to go into the military, choose a job that you can train up on, use for three years to gain experience, then walk. Take that to the civilian sector and get hired. A good example I give them is police work. You cannot become a cop at 18, because you cannot carry a gun until you are 21. But, in the military you can. So, go in for three years, get the MP training, then come out and go to a police, sheriff or state trooper job. You have the up side of three years military police training. Civilian forces like that. They know you are trained, experienced, and disciplined. That is the only way I would tell them to go into the service today. I DO NOT TRUST ANYONE IN SODOM ON THE POTOMAC. DIMOCRAT COMMUNIST A-HOLES, OR THE RINOS. None of them. They are all lying scum as far as I am concerned. If you think I will go into the field and get shot at today to keep these scum in office, think again.

Good advice.

Computer careers and anything medical are also good options for young troops. Motor pool mechanic, Jet/helicopter repair...

I hear ya. 24 years in the Navy and wow how they are screwing us. Such a shame really. I it pisses me off that they cry about the “bonus” in food stamps being taken away, while we get a huge deduction for practically life. Not a peep about welfare being cut a percentage point a year…why not? UGH!