This comment has a lot more qualifiers than your previous comment, but I still think you're wildly overestimating things. Maybe everybody I know "just [doesn't]

This comment has a lot more qualifiers than your previous comment, but I still think you're wildly overestimating things. Maybe everybody I know "just [doesn't] want to do one of the kinds of jobs that pay a premium for retired military" but it seems like someone I know would at least try the $500k+ job for a while if that were an immediately available option for them. I don't think they're ending up in GS-14 or GS-15 supervisory positions in a big headquarters because the office politics, meetings, and emails are so much fun.