Comments on: Army recruitment efforts in a death spiral http://www.bloggernews.net/18600 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:43:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: sftaxi804@hotmail.com http://www.bloggernews.net/18600#comment-844080 sftaxi804@hotmail.com Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:04:04 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/18600#comment-844080 I was a naval reserve recruiter for 16 years: When I think sometimes about all the lies and untrusts my fellow recruiters did in order to make their numbers it is a wonder we even have a military atr all steve I was a naval reserve recruiter for 16 years: When I think sometimes about all the lies and untrusts my fellow recruiters did in order to make their numbers it is a wonder we even have a military atr all steve

]]> By: Willard D. Gray http://www.bloggernews.net/18600#comment-60738 Willard D. Gray Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:55:03 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/18600#comment-60738 As a 1964, i.e., 1964, U.S. Army length of service military retiree who served this deceitful, thankless, and unforgiving nation during and over three major engagements in combat and a dozen minor conflagrations to be BETRAYED along with 432,000 cohorts by the changing of a decades old law regarding how retired pay would be paid in the future after we had given this nation the best years of our lives and then to see our "ingrate" successors drawing all of 1/3 more than we do I hope the whiners of today all desert the services. Medicare did not even exist when I retired. I knew that I had "earned" life-long health care. No! In the '70s this same deceiful nation notified me that on attaining age 65 when no longer subject to recall to active duty and wanting health care, "Go to Social Security and apply of Medicare part B" along with the draft-dodge, highly paid civilian and now the "ingrate" HIGHLY PAID SUCCESSOR MILITARY RETIREE. To he.. with the military and the nation. As a 1964, i.e., 1964, U.S. Army length of service military retiree who served this deceitful, thankless, and unforgiving nation during and over three major engagements in combat and a dozen minor conflagrations to be BETRAYED along with 432,000 cohorts by the changing of a decades old law regarding how retired pay would be paid in the future after we had given this nation the best years of our lives and then to see our “ingrate” successors drawing all of 1/3 more than we do I hope the whiners of today all desert the services.

Medicare did not even exist when I retired. I knew that I had “earned” life-long health care. No! In the ’70s this same deceiful nation notified me that on attaining age 65 when no longer subject to recall to active duty and wanting health care, “Go to Social Security and apply of Medicare part B” along with the draft-dodge, highly paid civilian and now the “ingrate” HIGHLY PAID SUCCESSOR MILITARY RETIREE.

To he.. with the military and the nation.

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