Reply #17: It's not a FREE army, it ain't McDonalds [View All]

[MADem]

You volunteer to serve a set period of time. If you don't like the contract, you don't sign it. But once you do, that's it. You're in. Underage DEPS excepted.

It costs anywhere from $28K (basic only, no appreciable follow-on training) on UP to over a million (aviators) to train a servicemember. That's OUR tax dollars. Under your scenario, the Pentagon would need triple its budget for personnel expenditures alone, and they'd likely retain one-fourth of the Army they have with that figure.

I think enough of my tax dollars are wasted by those guys. Let's not make it worse.