the reduction of it

I'm not 100% familiar with military compensation to be honest.

Parents get bamboozled.

They didn't know what ritalin really was.

It came highly recommended

But I know you can get a surprisingly solid pension for surprisingly little time served.

And people seemed to be experts.

@pratel iirc in the USMC, if you were at a certain rank after a certain number of years still, they just boot you

My parents weren't stupid, they just trusted professionals.

@oprahsminge good to know.

Do they still get paid though?

They assumed other people were as honorable about their jobs, as they were with their own.

like if I had stayed in and only been a corporal at year 8 id have gotten booted out

FUCK NO

That was the mistake.

you need 20 minimum to get a pension

That would make sense.

If that's the threshold, it's fairly reasonable.

Can you take a shortcut if you go through a service academy or something?

its not that its unreasonable or reasonable. It's just the way that the pay scales scale upward so dramatically

The whole idea of pensions, and being able to dangle the whole of them, makes me sick.

Well they're basically dead at this point.

and they pay out at high as fuck percentages of your paygrade

Only the government offers them.

@pratel what you mean take a shortcut through a service academy?

If it's something you're promised, something that keeps you and your family ALIVE, you cannot just hold it over people.

like pick up rank out of the gate?

@oprahsminge that would make sense. I think alot of the people I've heard of doing this were doctors and educated people who were able to count their years in education towards their service.

Yeah, basically.

oh

I mean I was enlisted

i dunno how the officers worked

They also got the education paid for by the state.

and theres not a bunch of officers in the Corps to begin with

less than most other branches

Chair Force flies the highest (for now)

@Timcast social justice simply existing is to far. A very mild form of social justice would be racial segregation and discrimination, a relativly mild form of social justice would be the KKK, a strong form of social justice would be sharia, nazi germany or the soviet union

@Scribblehatch they gave out speed in field rations for some soldiers

point is it may not be the best example of the military writ large

USMC is weird

Fair point.