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Originally Posted by Nascar1966
Another thing I will not let anyone tell me that I didnt earn my pension or excellent medical insurance when they didnt spend a day in the military. They want to run thier mouths off. Have they spend six months or up to two years away from thier family? Have they been in a combat situation where they might be shot at? Yet they still want to say that the retirees dont deserve a pension or excellent medical insurance? Im sure no one put a gun to them and said they couldnt join the military. If they wanted a job where they could get a pension maybe they should of did some more research.
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it was your choice to join the military and stay long enough to retire. no one owes you a thing for that. you earned your retirement, good for you. it doesn't preclude you from criticism, it doesn't make you a martyr for your cause. props to you for serving, but quit thinking it entitles you to post whatever you wish to whomever you desire just because they disagree with you politically. it doesn't give you carte blanche. and you aren't better than anyone else here because you served in active duty and others chose not to.
it's a volunteer force, as it should be. others serve in other ways, including paying the taxes that paid you during active duty, and pays your retirement, and paid for your gear, your housing, your medical care, etc, etc. quit acting as tho anyone disagreeing with you is an attack on a soldier, or the military, or is a way of saying you didn't earn what you've got.
personally, i think 20 years is too short a time to qualify for retirement, but that's just me.