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• SEAL Who Allegedly Shot and Killed Bin Laden Reveals Stunning New Details About the Raid — And You Won’t Believe How He Says the Gov’t Has Treated Him Since

  February 11, 2013 at 5:20pm

  In reply to RamahX.

  Some posters indicating that former military veterans can’t get hired by commercial companies after discharge. I am a Navy veteran and had no problems getting hired after Honorable discharge.

  Now let me clarify, that started with a defense company 1981 and I recently retired. What I observed as the decades went by was that the Navy and other services did not want to spend the money training new enlistment ranks as they did when I was in the service. I was in for 6 years and 2 of those years were in electronics theory and specialized maintenance schools. We were trained to troubleshoot down to the component level in the systems we maintained. The Navy and other military branches changed their maintenance concept to a “swap until you drop” concept for changing out modulized spares. Maintenance software and tech manuals and training were also developed along these lines and because of this concept the military had to rely heavily on contractor maintenance support contracts when the troops could not repair the equipment.

  So the military saved on training costs, but ended up spending more funds on the contractor support efforts.

  Defense contractors suffered also because instead of getting well trainied troops who could start up right out of the military, we got guys with resumes that could only work on one piece of specialized hardware and had very little electronics theory in their resumes.

  The median age for my company when I retired was plus 45 yea

• Best Buy Sends Customers 5 iPads by Mistake — And Wait Until You Hear the Company’s Response

  December 7, 2012 at 11:59pm

  Amazon.com has a similar policy for wacky deliveries. I once received about $200.00 in toys I didn’t order and Amazom customer service said I could keep the toys or recommended donating to charity.

• Joe Biden did not buy a $1,200 watch at Costco

  December 1, 2012 at 11:26am

  Yes COSTCO sells $1200 watches. I have seen watches close to $10,000 in their store.