Quote:Fair enough it's a contract I understand that. I don't even have a problem saying we don't do enough for members of our military. I'm just simply trying to point out how people are being conditioned to expect government benefits including members of the military. 

Seriously???? We are NOT conditioned to accept handouts from the government. We are conditioned to bust our [BLEEP] to serve this country.

 

As someone stated before, contracts were signed, lives were given over to the government to do with us what they wanted/what was required. In return they pay us (have you seen the pay of an enlisted troop? Not even minimum wage per hour considering we're officially on duty 24/7), feed us (chow hall, MRE's), clothe us (uniforms), house us (barracks, tents, on post housing) and provide healthcare and retirement for a job we do 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We are expected to be ready 24/7 to be at the military's beck and call because that's how it works. No other job I can think of for the average American comes close. And we will go into harms way to protect this country, whether we or anyone else agrees with the why of it, or not.

 

I agree with most of what you put out on the board but in this you are sorely off base. In so many ways you are off base. Unless you have lived the military life you don't even know the hardship that goes into it for the troops and their families. We deserve every bit of retirement we earned, every bit of that healthcare (which BTW is not entirely how you think it is or you wouldn't consider it socialized), every bit of that VA loan (it's a LOAN we have to pay back- hello), every bit of whatever USAA wants to offer us.

 

I've been both the Soldier and the spouse so I know I speak from both perspectives in that you have no idea of what you're talking about. 

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