OBL's Shooter Needs a Job

[Kane]

The article says he retired after 15 years. I'm not sure if that means he gets nothing because he didn't make the 20 year cutoff. But I have to wonder why you'd dump the job after 15 years if you're only 5 away from a decent retirement?

[John Galt]

at 20 years you get 50% base pay, adding 2.5% per year of service to a max of 75% at 30. base pay of course doesn't include things like combat pay or whatnot but my father looks to have made over 10K at his retirement as base pay, and retired after 25, so he's getting over 6.5K per month doing nothing and in wisconsin this isn't taxed. this of course increases with cost of living, etc. the ass has another job that is at the same level as he was before he retired a civilian working for the army and complains about money. with my mother now a head of a deptartment in a college, i think they've moved comfortably into the 2 percenters. jerks

[eynon81]

[John Galt]

[John Galt]

[Kane]

[Kane]

My old landlord spent six years in the Air Force working on CNC mills. He got to travel the world. Now he's back and going to college for free while receiving monthly stipends.

Everything I've seen suggests our military takes care of its own rather well....

[Kane]

Consider even being in the National Guard...you get a monthly sum for working one or two weekends a month? And you can get another job to supplement that income?

I should do that now that we're out of f**k Iraq.

[exploited]

There are always ways to improve support of veterans, but the US probably does a better job at taking care of it's soldiers than any other country in the world. I just don't see the state of affairs as being all that terrible, other than I think PTSD needs to be taken a whole helluva lot more seriously.

[Revenant]