"Sen. Jim Webb, D- Va., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s military personnel panel, said Thursday he lives by this “moral contract” and believes Congress should weigh the matter heavily before “characterizing the commitment we have made as a throwaway matter.”
“I grew up in the Marine Corps tradition and no Marine is ever left behind. … I feel just as strongly about the commitment that we have made to lifetime medical care to the people who have served,” Webb said." Army Times
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Well, good for Webb. The percentage of military service people who stay long enough to reture with medical benefits is quite small. We are talking here of people who retire for long service. This does not apply to people who served a few years and then left the military. As Webb says it was ALWAYS understood that those people would have medical benefits for life. That was one of the conditions of their service. pl
