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- Feb 28, 2019
Hahaha, to number 4.To clarify some points in the Lt Col's recent video:
1. He said he had a $2mil pension fund he was throwing away. This is 100% accurate. An O-5 would be expected to receive roughly $56,000 per year for the rest of their life upon retirement. $2mil would equal out to about 35 years down the road. He's not just spouting numbers and seems very coherent.
2. He is resigning commission 3 years before retirement. This is also true on several points. After your initial obligation you can resign commission whenever you feel. Seen it up and down the officer ranks, but most stay in a while to pad out a CV. You don't get a pension unless you put in at least 20 years. LTC here is aware of future consequences.
3. He said he was rejecting VA benefits. Regardless of retirement or resignation, anyone who gets out under honorable conditions is granted health and financial benefits from the VA. Again he is aware of future consequences.
4. LTC states that he is ready to burn the institution down should he have to. Expect a LOT of top brass suddenly embroiled in sex scandals in the coming months.

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They're shoving him in a dark hole with an military shrink until this all blows over. 4, 5 years, maybe a decade.