[QUOTE=c.captain;117981]why the HELL is everybody trying to find some “rational” reason for their to be a uniformed NOAA Corps? There is no reason other than it is a very sweet deal for those who get in and out in 20 with a lifetime pension and then able to either go back to work for the federal government or any other place and take their training and experience with them when they go. I’d like to have $7500 or more a month for the rest of my life at 42 years old and an unlimited master’s license or multiengine pilot’s certificate.
Many of these supposed retired “warriors” are making absolute bank and any attempt to take away their silver spoon makes them cry like babies who have had their binkies taken out of their mouths. Not since 1997 has anyone in any administration or the Congress had the balls to try to do it again! It is sickening how special interests control the process in Washington and the NOAA Corps is just another like KP.[/QUOTE]
No way is any NOAA Corps officer banking $7500 a month in retirement. They get 50% of their high three year average base salary. That’s about $4000. The only person “crying like a baby” is you.