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GoodRaisin

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8. What are you talking about?

Reply to Hornedfrog2000 (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 03:10 PM

Jun 25

I’ve never met anyone who joined the service “to get a check every month” for life unless they had the time in to retire. And I was in the Navy for 4 years active duty.

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