Veterans

About 20 or so, big old square head, doing his laundry at the laundromat. We got to talking and he told me had done his tour and had his honorable discharge and was heading back to Afgrhanistan where "I am going to make enough money so I never have to work again in my life" in one year. Now, to a 20 something that might be a couple hundred grand surely, but still that is one hell of a chunk of change.

Then a few weeks ago, I meet this guy. RETIRED Colonel in the AF. Chopper pilot. He had been in Afghanistan for the past two years, flying helicopters and told me he made "Well over a million dollars" a year as a private pilot working for a contractor. Says he has 4 months off and is paid no matter what. And that all his former AF buddies all had similar jobs over there, in fact there is a pipeline of sorts there recruiting and hireing former military to work for the contractors..