Really? If it bothered Mullen so much, he should have resigned, then called a very public news conference. That would have attracted attention, and at least some debate.
But I guess it's easier to keep quiet and just add a few more years to your pension formula. Then after retirement, you can bring the subject up at some meaningless breakfast somewhere.
“they feel entitled to this whether they need it or not”
He’s talking about people feeling they have the right to spend their own money on what they desire.
And he was going along so well. The infection is deep.
A great place to start is no more costly land invasions of poor Muslim hellholes, that tie us up for decades.
As long as the US is wasting money on those few will buy this ‘we all have to sacrifice our retirement entitlements’ BS.