No Job Security Even In Military. Careerists Laid Off Due To Budget Cuts. [View all]
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.
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