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You're ignoring a whole lot of compensation if you're just including base pay. In fact, total AD military compensation totals $116,484,238,000 (includes MIDN/Cadets, but doesn't include reservists). The comptroller lists "active personnel costs" as over $130 billion (the dollars in the charts are in thousands just in case you wanted to have to multiply everything when reading data), but that includes PCS moves, apprehending deserters, etc. Both numbers are a far cry from $56.4 million/billion being thrown around. Considering that there are over 1.4 million AD personnel, the annual cost of paying them cannot be $56.4 million unless they on average made like $50 per year.
And comparing a projected retirement cost of $82.7 billion to today's AD costs while excluding almost half of military compensation is manipulating statistics just to make a point. Retirement costs will go up, but so will AD costs as AD servicemembers get CPI and BAH raises, too.
Bottom line: The DOD does not pay more money to retirees than AD servicemembers. 130 > 65. Any publication that says retirees take more DoD funds than AD is manipulating numbers to get people to agree with him. Is the ratio of AD to retirees nearly 2:1 or greater? If so, then it's not disproportionate. If not, then it is disproportionate but not as alarming as they are making it seem.
And comparing a projected retirement cost of $82.7 billion to today's AD costs while excluding almost half of military compensation is manipulating statistics just to make a point. Retirement costs will go up, but so will AD costs as AD servicemembers get CPI and BAH raises, too.
Bottom line: The DOD does not pay more money to retirees than AD servicemembers. 130 > 65. Any publication that says retirees take more DoD funds than AD is manipulating numbers to get people to agree with him. Is the ratio of AD to retirees nearly 2:1 or greater? If so, then it's not disproportionate. If not, then it is disproportionate but not as alarming as they are making it seem.
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