Military thinning ranks

Let's see...news keeps telling us the ranks are not filled to capacity, indeed they are having problems recruiting. Now this 'early retirement' program. IS ANYONE IN CHARGE IN DC??? For you argumentative types, I can't cite this news source yet, as I just got a call from an officer in current service asking me as his financial advisor if the package is a good deal. Lets digest this a bit. The military spends great amounts of time and money training personnell and expects in return those personnell will serve faithfully and not take the training and duck out into private enerprises. Then the military gets the bright idea to take these fully trained officers and offer them a package (bribe) to LEAVE early, fully trained. Readers, it's OUR MONEY they are wasting on the training and then golden parachutes. Between politicans spending us into eternal debt and upper eschelon military advisors making these kind of financial decisions we will not recover from this administration without massive tax increases. WHEN WILL THE MADNESS STOP?

 

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Actually I know exactly what his role in the military is (your financial advisor needs to know everything) and without giving much away for his safety and my business privacy obligations, I can tell you he has been deployed for most of 3 years out of the country to combat zones, called me from his cell phone while driving his combat vehicle as evidenced by the noise in the background, and that's how I got this info hot off the press. I must wonder at your response. It felt like you were trying to discount my original post by bringing up possibilities to which you have no personal knowledge. Possibilities discount nothing. facts could. OP stands as near to fact as I am able to discern or I would have indicated it was heresay or a possibility or some other disclaimer.

btw this particular personnel position is extremely sensitive, skilled, highly trained, a position in which I believe no individual could perform without all long-term (years) associated training. This is not a cookie-cutter plug-in-a-grunt job. However, even if it were a dime-a-dozen position, the point of the OP remains in that as far as I know the military is hurting for personnell and should value all comers to the extent of their skills in these troubled times. Giving intense training then cutting people loose offering bonuses to leave early to fully trained, combat hardened troops with many years of service doesn't pass my smell test. Before you offer up the excuse that perhaps 'conduct unbecoming an officer' is the reason doesn't cut it for 2 reasons: in such cases the military doesn't offer golden parachutes they just fire your nice person. And also this offer is aparantly being made to multiple tens of thousands of people.