dw, put your pet lip away!!
what dont understand is why they get
extras when they leave,the same as i dont
understand why bankers get bonuses
when they loose money,the same as i dont
understand why the police get bonuses.
they are all paid to do a job,and they chose
to do the job,so i just question why
anyone paid at the taxpayers expense
gets better benefits than others.
Look, in the army you get kicked out after 22 years, that means if you join at age 18 years old, when you reach 40 years old, you're out - no job.
And normally, due to all the different postings, not many soldiers have bought themselves a house; they have rented an army married quarter. When you're away on tour, dodging bombs 'n' bullets, you don't want the hassle of tenants and broken boilers.
So, at age 40 you get a lump sum and a monthly pension. Many soldiers will stick the lump sum down as a deposit on a house and the monthly pension will hopefully go some way to cover the mortgage remaining.
And since there's not a lot of call for many of the occupations in the armed services (infantry, armoured engineers, combat engineers, etc), the nation provides re-training so that ex-soldiers can provide for themselves and their family. The longer you serve, the better your resettlement package.
And notice the word 'Service'; they do serve others, unlike bankers who only serve themselves - so it was uneducated to mention 'soldiers' and 'bankers' as if they're both conning the system. You know, the guys currently doing security for the Olympics, I bet many of them were severely messed around because of that. I've had to cancel holidays in the past, losing my deposits, because I had to go somewhere I didn't want to go; but the needs of the Nation over-rides the needs of the individual.
I hope I've answered your questions and helped with your understanding.
