Pentagon could cut thousands more employees, save $50 billion, says study by former chiefs

[westerebus]

14. I am in no way being "shitty" with you.

Not every one understands how the civil service works, let alone veteran's preference.

I tried to explain that in the first post. Civil service pensions have changed.

Almost everybody is covered under social security and the Federal Retirement System which is an IRA. No one under the new system can double dip with out an offset of 90% to their social security if they were retired under the older civil service pension program.

So even though I pay into social security, I will never collect more than 10%. That's in the plus column for the civilian side who never did military service or worked as a government employee.

I did not go to work for DOD.

I know people who did contract work for DOD that were retired military. What they got paid was far larger than what a government employee would have received The offset being in lieu of a pension or any thing else a vet might receive. I'm not a big fan of government contractors. The mess they leave behind has to be dealt with by the government employees.

Are we good?