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and he (Gates) called for a review that includes a reduction in personnel, military pay and retiree benefits.

Oh yeah, start there you asshat.
Like E-8's who retire after 25+ or more years are living in Penthouses and driving Bentleys to the Golf Club for dinner.

We have a friend who retired after close to 30 years, an E-8 (1SG) who spent most of his service in the SF (MOS-18E), first with the 5th Group then the 10th Group, stationed in (cough) 'Germany'. He had to find a fricken job just so he could pay the rent, and still had to shop at the PX (where I cannot say). That was one of his *many* benefits (/s) for doing things most people would wet their pants if asked to do.

So yeah Gates, cut the pay and retirement benefits. Jerk.

Well said, they are already talking about cutting my civilian job, hardly one of those six figure civilian service jobs you hear about. Most of those are inside the Beltway. So all I will have is my retirement after 32 years of combined Reserve and active duty. How they will attack us is to make us pay for more health coverage, and not give us annual COLA increases. They cannot cut our retirement pay, but than can limit or prevent any annual increases which results in a DOD savings, at leas that is the way it was explained to me. So while as it cost more to live our retirements are worth less. They are already changing policies to force service member out before they are retirement eligible. Prevent war-fighters from ever getting anything from the service. They will have to fight for benefits from the VA like the Vietnam vets are forced to do.