Message from @Scribblehatch
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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.
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?