"Many Elite Soldiers Leave for Better Pay"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just when the U.S. military needs them most, senior Green Berets, Navy SEALs and other elite forces are leaving for higher-paying jobs.

After getting years of training and experience in the military, they leave for other government jobs or for what defense officials said Tuesday has been an explosion in outside contractor work.

"What makes them so valuable to us makes them highly marketable on the outside," said Chief Master Sgt. Robert V. Martens Jr., senior adviser at the U.S. Special Operations Command, which also oversees equipping and training elite Army Rangers and Air Force special operations commandos.

Better salaries, retirement benefits and educational opportunities are among incentives that might help stem the problem, defense officials said as they met with lawmakers to discuss ways to keep forces who have become so crucial to the war on terror.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040721/D83V50D01.html

[rocktivity]

1. If they're in the Individual Ready Rerserve

Aren't they going to get recalled anyway?

:headbang:
rocknation

[qb]

2. I thought they weren't letting anyone leave the military.

I guess that rule just applies to the rank and file bullet catchers.
(I mean no disrespect to our troops - I just wanted to reflect how they've been treated by the * administration).

[Redhead488]

3. Only certain jobs in certain branches

are being stop-lossed. I'd be surprised if the Army was letting Green Berets and Rangers out, but I don't think the Navy is stop-lossing their SEALs.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I think the goal is to let the elite guys out so they can be privatized

and therefore have their own little set of rules when sent out to work.