{"id":19063,"date":"2010-05-11T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19063"},"modified":"2010-05-11T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:49:14","slug":"is-20-year-military-retirement-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19063","title":{"rendered":"Is 20-year military retirement too soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked this story up from our buddies over at ROK Drop<\/a> and thought I’d bring it over here because it fits with my warnings that the Obama Administration is coming for our compensation. <\/p>\n

The discussion begins with Nathaniel Fick<\/a>, the CEO of the Center for New American Security who claims that the current 20-year retirement system that the military depends upon is outdated because, somehow we’re not an agrarian society now<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Cliff retirement at 20 years of service, for instance, strikes me as a relic of an age when twenty years in the Army left a veteran a broken man, with blown joints, no hearing, and a limited ability to work in an agricultural or industrial economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fick is basically an imbecile. According to his bio, he’s a former infantry officer, and I noticed he didn’t bother to do a twenty or thirty year stint, but I’ll bet he had career NCOs who trained his young, hairless ass how to be an infantry leader. What if those guys had decided that sticking around for thirty years wasn’t worth it.<\/p>\n

Fick acts like retention won’t be affected, like James Orbitron Webb thinks that lower pay won’t affect retention. <\/p>\n

The result: lower and more flexible personnel costs that are heavier on discretionary spending and lighter on mandatory spending, and a system more aligned with your view (quite correct, in my opinion) that people are much more important than things — paying our young warfighters more and our “retirees” (if we can call someone in his 30s that with a straight face) less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, Fick, don’t you want those “young warfighters” to hang around long enough to be retirees? There’s a cause and effect model here that I don’t think you want to tamper with from your ivory tower think tank, Fick. <\/p>\n

Not only that, but servicemembers who accept the lower pay, the family displacements, the deployments are twenty years behind their peers when they get out of the military and the paltry retirement makes up for that deficiency somewhat.<\/p>\n

So how are the musings from a think tank related to the Obama Administration? Well, given the importance that the Obama Administration places on the denizens of this particular tank should give you reason to worry. The two founders of the Center, Mich\u00e8le Flournoy and Kurt M. Campbell, are currently members of the Obama clan as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, respectively, so they wield some measure of influence among the Obamistas.<\/p>\n

Our military is unique in the world because we have a young and experienced core of professionals, but the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Congress seem deadset on tearing down the professionals by destroying retention. <\/p>\n

Funny how outsiders always seem to have all of the answers for lowering costs, and the answers always seem to be the military and their personnel issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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