Indeed. I served over twenty years and I get a check each month for my twenty + years of service, subject to the whims of politicians who can cut me off whenever they wish, but I also know there are a magnitude of others, particularly prior enlisted service members, who are passed over for promotion, forced from service or decide to leave service and they have no retirement fund to take with them. They are simply booted out of the door without the transferable retirement benefit most professionals take for granted...and believe me when you perform military service you are as much a professional as any executive, attorney, or physician. It is a complete travesty that our young men and women have been abused in this manner for so long.
You have bested my post by thousands of times, sir.
Eh, you’re wrong in this regard. Those who are choose to leave the service or are told to always have the option of serving in the reserves. They take with them a myriad of benefits from the VA, the two most valuable in my estimation being the mortgage and the educational benefits. I’ve never been in an area where the reserves were not looking for good prior service personnel, the Army Guard & Reserve especially.