I lived through the post-Vietnam era RIFs as an Army brat. Believe me, the impact was noticeable - if not in the way Our Bill lived through it. I lived through the post-Desert Storm RIF (reduction-in-force, in case you don't know the acronym) as an eliigible year group Major. To counter some of the pain caused by the brutal nature of the post-Vietnam RIF, Congress gave the services some shaping tools, including the 15 year retirement, which has recently been reauthorized. So, now I see this sort of thing again, in a sort of dreary deja-vu... Early Retirement Could Be...
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Jan 16 2012, 06:03 AM
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