Four retired senior officers have written an opinion piece claiming that military retirement benefits are too generous. Of course, they weren't writing about their own benefit package, but about the earned benefit of thousands of Senior Enlisted and Field Grade officers that can leave service after 20 years with a pension in hand. That very pension is meant to help our Armed Services retain quality folks but those same people gamble while doing so. At any point in their career, they could fail to promote and kiss 100% of that pension goodbye. Or the military could chose to hand them a pink slip after more than a decade of service but before the magic number 20.
And why aren't these retired generals and admirals talking about their own pension plans?
Because their pensions were beefed up during the Bush/Cheney years. Beefed up so much, in fact, that today's retiring generals and admirals earn more in pension per year than they earned while serving active duty.