Air Force to deny early retirement benefits to transgender veterans

People who served between 15 to 18 years to be denied retirement benefits if transgender, this is so shameful.

Honestly though, on the bright side, if the military screws over enough people and closes itself off, it will be comical if you actually need people to fight for you in war and people aren't going to have it.

Lol I mean how many men that fit the specfic nationalist ideal is actually out there. In 2050 whites will be a minority so how many are gonna replace who the Trump administration is ostracizing? Like how you gonna replace people, there's not enough straight whites in 2050 gonna be left.

And Trump has already did similar to black veterans and their memorials too so this leaves them out.

Unless you wanna force white women to have 20 babies each?

These policies of trying to be combative to your own citizens are going to backfire.

Whose going to join the military in the future?

No one.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496133/air-force-retirement-benefits-transgender#

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DogMan · 61-69, M

When I was in the military long ago, you had to be in a minimum of 20 years to retire.

I saw many people get kicked out over minor things right before they got their 20.

That's one of the reasons I got out after 8 years.

swirlie · 31-35

@DogMan
What does people getting kicked out of the military over minor things before they got their 20 years of service in, have to do with transgender issues involving military veterans?

swirlie · 31-35

The US military was having the same issue with people NOT joining the US military voluntarily as far back as WWII and the Vietnam war, which seems to be a parallel to the transgender issue you raise here.

The reason men would then join the US military voluntarily during the Vietnam war was because they had either already received notice of induction (draft forthcoming) in the mail, or they knew it would be arriving in the mail very shortly!

Be as proactive as Americans usually are, those young proactive men voluntarily enlisted in the US military at the last minute in many cases between 1962 and 1973 to avoid being drafted, while thinking that volunteering would somehow help them to direct their fate of where they'd end up, as opposed to being drafted and being sent off to the front line in South Vietnam.

The truth is, whether they enlisted voluntarily or they were drafted against their will, they were ALL sent to the front line in South Vietnam!

I understand what your post is eluding to, but if all transgenders were excluded from military service, you'd either have nothing different happen than what was already experienced during Vietnam, or you'd have every American male declaring himself transgender to avoid being sent to the front line of America's latest debacle on the world stage.

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DogMan · 61-69, M

@swirlie I can infuse myself in any public forum I feel like.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@swirlie You will have to be more specific about which little dog. I have many dogs of all sizes. Big and small.🙂

DogMan · 61-69, M

@swirlie

One of my favorites

Firewarrior · MNew

There will always be enough soldiers. They get funneled there through ads. And if there arent enough you can force people to join the military.

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Firewarrior · MNew

@SatanBurgeruntil now yes, i just wanted to say that it is not that uncommon.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Firewarrior I'm just saying that with Trump, most people are less likely to be forced to go. You can't physically make a person go through basic training and if people all just collectively were like nah we're not going, I mean it would be a huge waste of resources to try to force people. You have to have court and then have the space to house the number of people who just said nah lol.

No other countries have Trump.

Firewarrior · MNew

@SatanBurger yeah thats true

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