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Old 12-17-2013, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by dynalow View Post
I've long felt that the Military retirement system was in need of reform...and I come from a family of military retirees. Dad was an O-6 with 30 who lived 21 years in retirement. My brothers were O-5 (retired 25 yrs already) & O-4 (retired 18 years now).

Those are sweet lifetime annuities. Not much like that in the private sector.
But not many jobs in the private sector pay so little and offer a possibility of being killed or maimed.
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