Al R -
You're right, there is a sustainability gap in terms of public pensions, and the military ones especially. But the government - not just of today - is fully responsible for that. They are the ones that have refused to invest and have instead prefered to keep it as an unfunded commitment, for which money must be found from the budgets on an annual basis to meet its liabilities.
That this is now coming to bite them in the arse is their fault, not ours. They could have done something about it before now, but they chose not to do so. How long has pension affordability been a likely problem? Or are the current generation of politicians suddenly being taken by surprise?!!!
Once again, people are returning from theatres of war to a country fit for heroes. Only in this case, the heroes are lesbians who have had their feelings hurt and secretaries who have hurt their thumbs in a nasty computer related injury. It's just as bad now as it was in 1918, but nowadays, they have no excuse for saying pleading ignorance.