[ETCM]

"And you complain about a 1% reduction in an unearned and a never guaranteed annual retirement pay raise formula?Are you sure you are a conservative? "

Assuming retiring at 40, 1% each year until 62 means a military retirement check will be worth approximately 22% less. Even this, I could accept if it was part of a massive reduction, but it is not. Effectively, other than the pension cuts, we are continuing down the same road of deficit spending that will bankrupt our nation.

[sarasmom]

So do you really think you should get an automatic 1% annual retirement pay increase each year?

Based on your own calculations, that would make your retirement pay at age 62, 72% of your former active duty pay.

Obviously a government math calculation issue.
Any cut in increases is considered a reduction.
That's never true, but that never seems to matter to government mathematicians.