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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nChock Block sends us a link to the latest hit piece in the Washington Post<\/a> by some fellow named Bill Webster about the personnel costs of maintaining an effective fighting force. Of course, he compares the job to the civilian sector;<\/p>\n A job in the military, the military in which I served, doesn’t compare to the civilian sector. What Mr. Webster doesn’t understand is that the Department of Defense needs to attract the best and brightest to a job that is more arduous and more time consuming than any job in the private sector. I suspect that Mr. Webster is a little bit jealous that he didn’t plan for his future like people in the military have done. We paid with our youth, our lives and our health for our comfortable retirement, while Mr. Webster was drinking himself through college – put a price tag on that. <\/p>\n Training for war is as hazardous as the war itself, military operations begin long before they appear in a journalist’s camera lens. If this country needs well-trained educated people to operate the tools of victory, they need to pay for it and there has to be a light at the end of the tunnel for folks who make a career of the military – the backbone of a professional fighting force is careerism. The troops don’t have the option of taking their skills elsewhere for higher pay when they’re combat arms – there’s no compensation package to compete for their skills. There is little they can do with those skills when they leave the military.<\/p>\n I’ll bet Mr. Webster can count on one hand the number of times that he was headed to work at 4 AM and his workday lasted for days at a time after that, often without sleep. I wonder how many times he got a call at 1 AM to come to work prepared to fight off the Soviet hordes. And there was no overtime pay involved – it was a call to arms. That training was what kicked Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait in 100 hours, it was what kicked Hussein out of Baghdad in 2003. That kind of performance, expertise and dedication costs money.<\/p>\n I absolutely dare Mr. Webster and the Washington Post to do the same comparison and tax payer cost analysis on welfare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Washington](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Washington-Post-hates-the-military2-300x135.jpg\")
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