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Veterans

westerebus

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9. Your are incorrect.

Reply to MADem (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 08:58 AM

Sep 2013

If you are a vet and qualify for a civil service job and get through the hiring process, you may buy the years spent in military service and apply that time toward the total of years necessary to qualify for retirement. It is not a freebie.

Most new vet hires are under the FERS program and are not under the older civil service pension program which was changed after Regan "saved social security" back in 1985.

Those who were hired under civil service pre-1985 have retired for the most part.

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Pentagon could cut thousands more employees, save $50 billion, says study by former chiefs [View all] unhappycamper Sep 2013 OP

"Reforming pension and health programs." Stargazer09 Sep 2013 #1

More force shaping ahead! Early outs, tougher PT tests, more drug testing, etc.... MADem Sep 2013 #2

They should be eliminating most of the contractor and replacing them with qualified returning ... Historic NY Sep 2013 #4

That ends up costing more in some cases. MADem Sep 2013 #5

Your are incorrect. westerebus Sep 2013 #9

No, I'm not. In the end--and I see nothing wrong with this practice, but it is a fact--the vet MADem Sep 2013 #10

We get 5 points for being veterns on the exams we take for qualification too. westerebus Sep 2013 #12

No, I don't this is "unfair" at all. It's a benefit of service. MADem Sep 2013 #13

I am in no way being "shitty" with you. westerebus Sep 2013 #14

Then do it! gopiscrap Sep 2013 #3

Sounds good, but that's another 110,000 on the street... TreasonousBastard Sep 2013 #6

From my perspective the problem starts here: unhappycamper Sep 2013 #7

Always has been, but... TreasonousBastard Sep 2013 #8

That's not the national budget, though. MADem Sep 2013 #11

The military budget is in discretionary spending, not mandatory spending. unhappycamper Sep 2013 #15

And discretionary spending is less than a third of the total budget. MADem Sep 2013 #16

And the military budget comes out of the same (Discretionary) pie as Labor, Education, Science, etc. unhappycamper Sep 2013 #17

Yes, it's 57 percent of thirty percent. nt MADem Sep 2013 #18