{"id":58421,"date":"2015-02-24T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58421"},"modified":"2015-02-24T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:04:22","slug":"military-compensation-and-retirement-modernization-commission-theyre-not-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58421","title":{"rendered":"Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission; they’re not like us"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a hue and cry raised recently across the online military community in regards to the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission. Someone has noticed that enlisted folks are not represented on the Commission. Military.com<\/a> profiled the nine-member commission and they’re all former members of the military (and one civilian who worked in the Bush Pentagon), but they come from the upper-echelon of the officer corps. From another Military.com<\/a> article;<\/p>\n

Robert Wert, a retired senior master sergeant in the Air Force described the commissioners as \u201cthe upper echelon\u201d of retirees. \u201cThey are surely the most comfortably retired military members in our nation,\u201d he wrote in an e-mail. \u201cAs well, they have likely landed prominent positions in the civilian world making six figure incomes or more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo use these gentlemen as a gauge for deciding on military compensation for the rest of the 99.9 percent of average military retirees is disingenuous,\u201d Wert added. \u201cOf course they wouldn\u2019t mind giving up their Tricare or other benefits, since to them it is mere pennies on their grand financial scheme of things. But for the average military retiree, every dollar taken away in benefits makes a big difference in their and their family\u2019s livelihood.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s what we’ve been saying all along. The general officers and the senior sergeants, who will all have comfortable retirements, as well as comfortable follow-on jobs in the private sector, have all come out and told Congress that adjusting the way that the troops are compensated will make them better, but their retirement, their own income is fairly secure. <\/p>\n

You know what? Ever since I was in the military, I never minded paying my fair share to my country. When I got out of the military, I looked around me and noticed that members of the military were the only ones taking the cuts to the benefits and compensation while the rest of the country demands more and more. The president has said that he wants to cut healthcare costs to all Americans while the Pentagon hikes healthcare costs to military retirees. And the services’ chiefs of staff cry, “yes, sir, three bags full”. <\/p>\n

I guess they thought that a commission of senior officers would go along with the Pentagon’s desires to cut compensation and that veterans would just go along with them when we’re dazzled by their stars and eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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