McCain Open to Changes in Mil Benefits, Retirement

[1stindoor]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

No service, no vote.

Straight from Heinlein.

TR

Service guarantees citizenship!

[pbr549xxx]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

Want another radical idea?

No service, no vote.

Straight from Heinlein.

TR

I concur with you Sir.

[Jefe]

"Easy fix.

Draft your sons and daughters to go fight, and pay them $150 per month for doing it. Let your son shower with the fag from down the hall, or room with him. Let your children and grandchildren get military health care, such as it is. Then kick them out ten years later for things that happened five years before. And confiscate their 401K on the way out.

That will really cut personnel costs.

As predicted when we started the all-volunteer military.

TR"


100% Agree on that.

[Ret10Echo]

Interesting article from this morning that discusses the DOD position that Military Retirement is AFFORDABLE..


One paragraph that I picked out was the following:

20-year rule

The business board's claim that the retirement system is unfair is based on the fact that servicemembers who leave the military before 20 years get no pension at all, and only 17 percent of military members serve long enough to earn a pension. Also, there is no difference in retirement pay between those who serve in low-risk positions compared to those who have more dangerous jobs.

In industry, short of a buyout or specific to your position/company benefits package you may or may not get anything for 20, 30 or more years with the organization. So is that comparable to military retirement...should a one-and-done be provided a benefit package at some proportional rate? Congress gets one with a single term. IMHO, neither should be considered for a benefits package after 4 or 6 years...

But are things like education benefits, Veteran's hiring preference or extending PX and Commissary privileges a valid "in-kind" compensation short of a check at the end of the month?


Full article here (From WTOP dot com)