[norton]

OK, there are sour grapes contained in this response - but:

Considering the number of private enterprise workers who have in the past few years had their promised medical coverage jerked from retirement - what's the big deal when it happens to retired military?

I figure my formal retirement will just about cover medical insurance for two and a carton of smokes each month. (note the irony)

Retired military, following a second career on the outside, are making a whole lot more'n I will every month from two different commercial plans. Unless it is clearly a military related problem (ie, wounds) this seems to me to be no more or less than equality with the rest of us.

[Salgak]

Where's the big deal ? Were those corporate workers placed in harms' way ? Were they subject to being moved at the whim of their employer, with the choice of move or quit, repeatedly ?

More importantly, does a contract cease to exist because it becomes inconvienient to uphold it ?