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I’m more surprised that 80%+ of generals feel they need to work after their discharge. The presumption that employing former generals impacts the military spen

I’m more surprised that 80%+ of generals feel they need to work after their discharge. The presumption that employing former generals impacts the military spending budgets is, if true, a failure of the legislature and the budgetary councils, not these former government employees moving onto private sector jobs.

AustinDev 3y ago
You get 2x-4x salary. Your military retirement + full healthcare and your mid 6 figs from Lockheed and friends. Why wouldn't you?
ajcp 3y ago
The type person who makes O-9 or O-10 is one that just needs to always be working. It's no different than C-suite executives in any other field: they go insane if they're not doing *something*, so why not do something they've spent 30+ years being successful at.
paulddraper 3y ago
> I’m more surprised that 80%+ of generals feel they need to work after their discharge. Would you be surprised if I told you that tech CEOs don't base their employment on financial need?