[quote=bearishgurl]I don’t have a $3,300 – $3,800 mo. pension (Jackson was a Naval Officer)[/quote]
I humbly correct myself after checking her bio. “after the fact.” Jackson was a Chief Petty Officer Hospital Corpsman (HMC/E8) when she retired from the military after 21 yrs. svc. If she retired around ’99/00, her ret. pay would have been about $1,963 mo. and is now about $2,392 mo.
She must have rec’d her masters degree AFTER leaving the military. Her bachelor’s degree is from “Georgetown University.” That is a shipboard-based correspondence program that accepts military “C school” credits.
Combined with her $1,500 mo. school board pay, this was still over $200 more a month (+ practically “free” med. care) than my income at the time she lost her property to foreclosure in 2007).
Amazed that she was able to borrow that much over the years . . . but this does not surprise me.
