Veterans get housing loans, education assistance, preferential hiring when you apply for jobs and I don't know what else.
He was 60 in 2012 when the company closed and commercial airline pilots can only fly til they turn 65. He would either have to commute til he turned 65 (2017) or we would have to move to the base he would be stationed at. In aviation, airline pilots have to start at the bottom for any new job no matter how many hours they've flown or how much experience they have.
He didn't want to do any of it, so it was a "forced retirement".
