You know, when I was a kid in the early 1960's

[marie999]

61. I don't think so.

The army gave me training because of my pre-enlistment test scores. A colonel flew up from Washington to meet me. When I enlisted on a Friday, everyone but I marched to the train depot to go to boot training. I went into the orderly room to pick up my 3-day pass and a plane ticket. I did okay in training, but I was below average doing my job. That is the reason I did not reenlist. If I had been better at my job I would have made the army my career. In my job, you retired after 20 years. You then worked as a civilian for 10 years and retired because your 20 in the army was counted towards your retirement. Some even worked at a different agency for another 10 years and ended up receiving army retirement and 2 full retirements as a civilian at the age of 58. It is called triple dipping. In today's money that is about $250,000/year.