Originally Posted by
HSCompressor
The retirement system should've been revamped ages ago. How does a Navy Seal, with multiple sandbox deployments, require the same 20 years to earn a retirement check as a Coast Guard Yeoman?
That's a slippery slope, and very hard to adjudicate fairly. Also since pointy-end shooters tend to be less diverse than the force as a whole, there's no way they'd adjust retirement for combat experience.
Look at how combat tax exemption works today... what are you going to do, pay people more based on confirmed kills?
Pointy-end folks do get lots of retention bonuses at least. Also, more senior operators tend to do a lot more staff/training duty than front-line assignments (unless maybe they really want to be front-line).