Yep, Air force

3 decades makes sense for a nice pension.

yeah it makes sense

That's basically a career.

Basically

He joined when he was 17 lol

It's the guys who never get past the low levels but collect pensions for a lifetime that make you scratch your head.

And alot of those guys leave at 30 and take 6 figure jobs in private industry.

Oh I should mention

Can those guys get jobs elsewhere?

Giving your kids ritalin means they can probably never hold office.

"Why?"

Because it means they can never serve in the military.

"--Huh?"

@pratel who actually stays in the low levels and gets a pension?

You'll be running against people who have served in the military.

They win and you don't, in most circumstances.

You Americans should medicate children less

@oprahsminge I'm not sure. But I've heard people talk about it.

that's seeming to become a trend @Abel

Here we tell them to grow the fuck up

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