The basic premise that we're trying to hit here is the equation. In the equation that you're proposing, the 70% is 70% of the 75%, which is actually around 52%. What we're basically asking for is what we asked for last year. Bring it up to 100%; then, when you use the 70% that you're using, that percentage goes up into the 60%-plus range, which is a little more doable for somebody....
Everybody is talking about this base wage. You have to remember that many of the people in the forces aren't on base wage. They're going through 15 to 20 years at 20% above base wage, and now they've lost that 20%. Now you're taking them down to 75%, so they're losing another 25% of what their actual wage is.
We're asking to bring it up to an actual 100% base wage for just the ELB. When they hit 65, then you can do your little funky equation and things work out. But if you don't change that one thing, then the whole rest of it goes to pot. It's like a house of cards.