Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel: Military Pension Cuts Are ‘Chilling’

CARR: “That's not a small amount of money that's being discussed here. I think the proponents of this provision, those who help push it through, and keep it in the budget, and have it successfully stay in there would like to minimize, or in their narrative, try to minimize how much money we're talking about. But to someone who enlists in the United States military at the age of 18 and spends 20 years defending their country, that is particularly a large amount of money. That's enough to put a big dent in a college education for a kid. It’s enough to help buy a home. And you have to remember that these people who spend 20 or more years out there defending their country don't necessarily have the same kind of marketable skills that their colleagues who spent 20 years in the private sector might have. They have an adaptation, a transition process to go through when they get out.”