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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s because the taxpayer funds a huge portion of their expenses (housing while on base, no down payment for Va loans, the list goes on). Welfare queens to the max[/quote]

+1. Even one of Reagan's hires (Stockdale, I think his name may be) wrote a book a few years ago describing the US military as socialistic. But if you dare question it, you're labeled a "communist" or worse. DH has several retired military in his family, and when they start bragging about their free health care and whatnot at Thanksgiving, I say "you're welcome."   [/quote]

Maybe when the conversation turns to the safe and free society we live in, your retired military family members can turn to you and say, “You’re welcome.” 
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Oh, they do, at every turn. [/quote]

Good, I’m glad you are making sure to thank them for their service.

You are thanking them, right, and that’s why they’re saying, “You’re welcome”?

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Thanking them for their service is cringe. They didn’t do it for you.[/quote]

This.

The elephant in the room is that many people join or stay in the military because it is their best (financial ) option.

That is not politically correct but it is true. (That is why they use bonuses to get them to re-up, not flags or the constitution!)

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Come on. That's not true. Of all the officers that got to retirement there isn't a single one I know that did it for a paycheck. Many easier careers that don't totally burn your family and regularly puts you at risk. [/quote]

Yes, they did it for the pay check, retirement pay and health insurance.   No one stays in past 8-10 years except for that. For us, it was the health insurance.  [/quote]

Sure, they stay until 20 for the benefits or you get out pretty quick. That said, all the ones I know actually care about the military and our country. It's not like "showing up" for a paycheck at a 9 to 5. [/quote]

Yes it’s for the pay check.  Yes, it’s the same.  [/quote]

Your non-military job can order you to deploy to a war zone? Your non-military job tells you where you are going to live? No, it's not the same.[/quote]

Actually yes there are civilian jobs that deploy to war zones and my spouses job dictates where we live.  [/quote]
The pp asked if your job does that and the answer is clearly no. They didn’t ask if it’s possible to take a civilian job that goes to a war zone (by definition they can’t deploy from a civilian job). Those people are called military contractors. 
So you don’t get points for dancing around the questions. Your spouse can also quit their job if they don’t want to move in most instances. [/quote]

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