Nothing like knowing your contract......:cool:

Schedules are out for most FOs. Even if the X isn't there, click on it anyway. Sometimes it is hidden. A lot lower line values. It's the beginning of the fall slow season.

19 days until college football...

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images...jpg?1263412143

Pentagon may scrap traditional military pensions as part of retirement overhaul - m.NYPOST.com

They're thinking about the 401k route

So long volunteer Army. They are the only ones that should have a pension. Now if we are talking about all other government employees, they better realize that their Defined Benefit for a fix percentage contribution is going to come to an end. I keep trying to tell that to my family members in government service.

Its been in the works for a couple of months. About two years ago, the guard and reserves both stopped pushing the pension in their recruiting paperwork. There is no reason for a person to subject themselves (voluntarily) to the full time military lifestyle without some sort of return at the end of their servce. The gov't is trying to formulate some sort of 401-ish pension scheme to keep people in long term. Their investment vehicles currently offered (in the gov't 401's) only work in a rising stock market.

There are several third and fourth order effects that will result from this sort of program being ended. Conscripts can't keep the military running.

FTB,

THANK YOU FOR RAISING MY BLOOD PRESSURE!!

(I used to like you!);):D

Just like ACL said, "arrivederci to any sort of volunteer force" after this would become a law.

This country has school teachers, railroad workers, city and federal government employees collecting pensions and they have the audacity to propose that someone willing to "take a bullet" for this country's freedoms have their pensions affected?

Nothing but "pi$$ poor leadership" from the Commander-in-Chief, and it'll continue for as long as this country (liberals) has as short a memory as it does.

(Rant over)

Fly safe,

GJ

P.S. God forbid we reassess the 99 weeks, that's right, two years minus five weeks of a salary, for free given to someone too lazy to go out and find another job.

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Since we were on the topic...

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=65030

Good discussion in the mil forum.

Amen, these are just the people that should not have that benefit taken away. How about everyone else. Jeez :mad:

Sheeesh....what a country.:eek: