Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
The yanks, for all their shitty education, government, and pretty much everything else, actually have quite good retirement options after only 20 years served.

I was hanging around with a bloke in Udon in 2006 that was 39, just finished his 20 years of being a naval cryptographer after signing up at 18 after growing up with a single mother as the only whiteboy in the ghetto and no other options. Took retirement at 38 with 50% pay for life, had a house paid off in the states and had gotten a degree if French Lit I think. Nicely sorted for a bloke in their 30s moving to SEA.


Fok doing 20 years in the the navy or any other military wing, of course.
Their retirement schemes are obscene. A mates dad was in the marines for a good few decades, retired in Okinawa on 130kUS a year