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Old 12-04-2021, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by JTwift View Post
Another consideration on top of retirement pay is that Tricare is about $60/month with some low copays vs “civilian” monthly medical payments of $500+ whatever nonsense math for FSA, catastrophic caps, etc

thats worth thousands per year, and if you lose your job, you still have medical coverage.
Civilian employer medical in general is a poop-show, but top-tier majors are typically better than that.

Also it doesn't really matter if your monthly premium is $60 or $600 if you can pick up an OT trip and make $6K in a few days.
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