<prompt> Human: I read the other post about the 32 year old lawyer who is doing really well and wanted to point out that you dont need to get lucky and hit it big to hit your investment goals.I worked as a programmer during and after college for a few years until I decided to join the military as an officer. I have 11 years until I can retire with a 50 basic pay pension. Thatll be about 45kyear indexed to inflation. My spouse is also in the military with 12 years to go. Thatll give us about 90k in retirement income starting the day we retire medical benefits although those might get taken away depending on what happens with the defense budget the next few years. We currently max out all our retirement accounts 11k towards Roth IRAs, 35k towards TSP. Started a coverdell account for our kid so 2kyear goes towards that. The kids college education is already funded thanks to me transferring post 911 GI Bill benefits to the kid. That will pay the kid a stipend plus cover tuition up to the tuition cost of the most expense state school in the state. If we have a second kid, then my wife will transfer her benefit to that kid. We both have our Masters and its unlikely well ever go back to school.We have 2 debt payments, a mortgage on a house we bought thats now a rental property owe 125k 3.25, house is worth 250k and a car owe 14k 1.79. Ive been torn about just paying off all the debt, but am glad I didnt since Ive had that money in the market with awesome returns the past couple years. Net worth is currently 633k. My goal is to have 2m net worth 10 years from now. Were saving 80kyr and living nicely. Both of us working stressful jobs can be difficult at times, particularly when you look at the amount of time one of us has been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Qatar. On the other hand, that has helped us save since your pay is tax free while in a combat zone additional pay. Im 32, shes 30... We should be retired by 45 and Ill use cash to buy that nice dream home at a location to be determined. The 90k in combined pensions should allow us to live comfortably and do pretty much whatever we want.tl;dr You can get rich even in the military.  <response>: Congrats, there are some great financial benefits of a military career, if you dont mind the lifestyle and risks. 