The Defense Business Board (motto: ?Business Excellence in Defense of the Nation?), a panel of corporate types who advise the Pentagon?s civilian leadership, has trained its sights on a problem that urgently needs fixing: the military retirement system.
Didn?t know it was broken? Well, a recent DBB study concludes that military benefits are ?more generous and expensive? than those available in the private sector, and have therefore become ?unaffordable? and ?unfair.? Created back when military skills did not easily translate into civilian second careers, the system is also unnecessary, the study argues. And with retirees no longer dying as quickly as they once did, it?s inconvenient to boot.
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