Quote Originally Posted by circmand View Post
To have the high quality medical and great expensive video games but most of us are tax payers trying to hold on to our jobs and pay the taxes that pay for all the medical care and million dollar video games. I do not begrudge the military people great health care as they do a tough job and do it well. But million dollar simulators for them to play in bars is not what I consider a good use of my tax dollars. After all you do not see lay offs in the military, the government or the highly Democrat teachers field.
I was being sarcastic about the health care. My health care is horrible, motrin for everything.
As for no lay offs, find me another job that sends you away from your family for months at a time into harms way at a fraction of pay that your civilian counterpart gets paid. Find me a job that works you 18hours a day, 7 days a week for months at a time, no OSHA, no union to get you a 20 min break every hour, or to make sure you have a comfortable chair.
Murder rarely ever makes the news, neither do DUIs, unless they involve a military member, then its everywhere. Its kind of like being a Sports star, but without the paycheck or glamor.
We spend almost 500K training these kids to become nuclear operators, 3.5 yrs of college in less than 16 months. There isn't a civilian school in the world that can top that, so if putting them through a simulator can save lives, or at a minimum protect innocents from a drunken sailor, then go right ahead. Money well spent. Think of it as preventative maintenance for a million dollar tool. That is what a fully qualified Nuke operator is worth.