The biggest concern with the budget from the implementation perspective would be the pension itself and the question of a lifetime pension—the return to a lifetime pension—for disabled soldiers. What we see is a budget that makes mention of a pension, yet again, and makes promises of a pension down the road, yet again, but there is no meat. Completely absent is any meat to include, to my knowledge, any costing of what a pension like that might look like within this budget 2017.
That begs the question: when do we see a budget that addresses the pension? Is it 2018? Is it sometime after that? Is it leading into the next election so we can dangle the carrot some more? We don't really know. That's the problem. We don't really know.