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MCPO Roger Collins
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From the article. How does this effect pay and retirements?

“This is pay that would have gone to Army recruits that we can’t recruit,” Durbin said. “So there’s a ‘savings’ because we can’t recruit. The other part was they offered a voluntary change in military pensions, and they overestimated how many people would sign up for it.”
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MCPO Roger Collins
MCPO Roger Collins
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MSG Stan Hutchison And I would like to see less hypocrisy from you haters on the extreme left, neither is likely to happen. For years Reagan and Bush were vilified, good luck getting us to forget the extremely corrupt Obama and Clinton administrations.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
MSG Stan Hutchison
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MCPO Roger Collins - 1. I don't hate anyone. That is a waste of energy.
2. I did not see any "vilification" of Reagan. Not sure which Bush you are referring to.
3. No evidence of corruption in either Clinton or Obama's administration.
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MCPO Roger Collins
MCPO Roger Collins
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MSG Stan Hutchison perhaps in your alternate universe.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
MSG Stan Hutchison
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MCPO Roger Collins - I guess you don't wish to conduct a conversion, so I will let it go. For now.
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MSG Civilian Investigator
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A Democrat Senator makes a highly charged claim meant to incite anger from the military and those who support it, I will wait until there are a few Republicans who confirm it.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Agreed
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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I'd settle for confirmation from any source, not just Republican.
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Maj John Bell
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Please note that the article says "LEFT OVER" funds from military pay and pension accounts. Senator Durbin is either profoundly ignorant, or deliberately misleading on military pay and pension budgeting. Left over funds are those that the military assumed it would have to pay, but did not actually have to pay. Recruitment or retention goals do not always perfectly match actual personnel realities and retirees are notorious for being incorrigible and refusing to die on September 30, last day of the fiscal year.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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If you didn't die before the last day of the fiscal year how can there be 'leftover pension funds?
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Maj John Bell
Maj John Bell
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Because the Fiscal budget for 2020 is supposed to be completed and signed (I know... I know...) on September 30th 2019. If you are a trouble maker, and die on October 1st, 2019; there are 23 pay days of retirement pay that are no longer obligated funds. (It isn't actually calculated on an individual basis, but there is a healthy safety margin cranked in, and funds from military pay accounts and retirement accounts are leftover virtually every year.)
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