Use Military to Soak Up Excess Vacant Homes in U.S.A./Field Grade Officer Retirement Bonus Instead of Payments

High tech igloo shaped homes that produce most of their own energy requirements might be the way to go. Homes with low maintenance costs-one time roofing and exterior coating, survivable in tornados and hurricanes, coated with solar photon collecting materials could reduce the waste of materials, electrical production at a distance and human labor.
Present homes with debt problems and uncertain corporate ownership might perhaps be presented to U.S. soldiers as prizes of federal incompetent economic management. Soldiers could receive special discounted loans on vacant homes at 50% of their prior market value, and the government would guarantee the loans.

The military could also save federal dollars if officers of field grade were given a severance bonus of cash and a free home with no ongoing retirement payments. If they want federal money for life, they could apply for social security if they financially qualify. It seems unreasonable that federal military officers that enlisted at age 18 should be on the federal payroll for 50 years or more in the modern era of low numbers of field grade officer deaths on the battlefield or in sea combat.