People Would Kill for His Military Pension

We are supposed to feel sorry for 59-year-old Robert Freniere, a retired Air Force colonel with three graduate degrees who once served as a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal and has spent extensive time in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Now he lives in his van because he can’t even find work as a janitor.  According to the original article about him, he “receives an annual pension from the military of more than $40,000.”

People would kill for his military pension. I could certainly double my writing output if I was paid even half that every year.

A reader (D.J.) informs me that according to DoD’s own website a colonel with 30 years of service who retired in 2010 is making $78,000+ a year.

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9:51 am on January 9, 2014