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Originally Posted by jyl
If you have actually run the numbers, I'd be interested to see them.
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I have run the numbers, actually, and they do not work out in Rick's favor.
I negotiated a lot of support contracts for civilian employees in drone ops from 2004 to 2009, everything from land ops to sea ops.
Our single most expensive item(s) was personal insurance: Life, health, death etc.
The comparison is not between military members eligible for retirement, rather a straight look at the numbers in situ, direct costs, for deploying personnel.
I have not seen a straight line analysis of the cost of the VA (inclusive) infrastructure versus private care. I will do some digging.
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