Al, thanks for posting. They may well be figures they are working with. How they generate them is anyones guess. Probably from some national model of population, extrapolated to reflect the "green standard of fitness", introduced in recent years, at retirement (60). Personally, I do not believe those as average figures, more like "average for the top 10% of survivors" . Having recently seen, from one squadron, several deaths and very serious health deteriorations among retired flightdeck crew in the 55 to 60 age bracket, I would be pushed to believe an overall AVERAGE life expectancy of 70ish for full career military personel.
They MUST have the real figures from the pension payments. They know exactly how many have been paid for how long! False long life-expectancy is a good way of cooking the pension, it is not unlike the way the pay rates through AFPRB are manipulated.
OAP