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Yet you've participated in it and got paid for that.

Worth to mention paid very well and still receiving retirement plan benefits.

News to me. I had to look: in 2007 I was paid $1800 a month as an E4. I didn’t retire so I don’t have “retirement plan benefits” jfyi

He didn't say he was retired from the military. You need 20 years in to get a retirement. A tour in Afghanistan is not sufficient.