No Job Security Even In Military. Careerists Laid Off Due To Budget Cuts.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Even if you have served multiple tours in the war zones and are a career soldier you can be laid off when you are about to get your benefits. As the budgets increase for military contractors many career enlisted personnel are now being laid off just before they are to receive their benefits. It is like being laid off just before you get your pension.

In the case of the military to save money the DOD is letting soldiers go before they are to receive their promised benefits. Now the military is reducing forces under present budget cuts and the end of two wars. So now the military is no different than the private sector because it is being operated like a business. Saving on promised benefits and pensions is he new military model.

I am no fan of the bloated Pentagon budget, but it looks like our soldier are being economically sacrificed like any other worker. Thanks for serving here is your pink slip. So we are no letting go our most experienced soldiers and probably keeping the cheaper ones. A lot of lower enlisted are being let go as well.

According to the NY Times our military will go from 530,00 to 508,000 soon. Military recruiting is also being reduced and attrition will also reduce forces.

It is understandable that forces must be reduced, but the way it is done is leaving a sour taste with career soldiers who have sacrificed the most.

[lpbk2713]

1. Meanwhile ...

Link: http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140428/DEFREG02/304280024/US-Navy-Orders-10-New-Subs-Record-17-6B



The DoD has more of an allegiance to the defense contractors than to the rank and file.

This is the GOP way of "supporting the troops" .

[msongs]

2. time to purge parasite leech contractors and return the "jobs" to the troops themselves.

for generations the military did its own logistics like transport, laundry, food, keeping busy and occupied. now that stuff is done by private contractors sucking billions out the top of the money pot. time to stop all that. no need for KFC in Kabul.

[SunSeeker]

3. + 1

[City Lights]

10. Indeed! nt

[99th_Monkey]

4. ANY "privatization" of either MILITARY or INTEL

is an abomination to liberty, and a shit-stain on our national character.

[Cha]

5. This is Despicable and the top brass better rethink this shite..or they're going to find themselves,

rightfully so.. without recruits.

[suston96]

6. Is there a link to the source of this information?

This is wrong on its face. Where does this information come from?

[suston96]

8. I found this.....

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/09/12/amid-layoffs-uncertainty-pervades-air-force-officer-corps.html

[suston96]

9. And this.....

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/24/soldiers-troops-fired-reduction-downsizing/5560515/

"Among 3,000 Army officers or enlisted personnel being forced out this year and next, compensation can generally take three forms, depending on how long the soldier has served, Platt says. Those can be a full retirement benefit, a reduced pension for early retirement or severance pay, he says.

With 16 years of service, Hyde says he would be eligible for a small pension. But he remains hopeful the Army will let him stay on."

Those forced out will receive some form of retirement. Probably not as good as at 20 years but still a retirement or reduced separation pension.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Thank you "sequester".