Many military+families do not seem to understand this: joining the military in Canada is voluntarily as an 18+y.o. adult and should understand that they are assuming the risk that they may be maimed or killed in training or in deployment or may suffer mental illness related to their work.  The pension and payouts from the government are minimal.  This is all well known. I knew it 35 years ago when recruiters came to our high school to sell students on a loans-free education and my kids knew it when they faced the same in recent years.  It also has absolutely nothing to do with the Khadr settlement.  While everyone likes to focus on him being 15 when captured they ignore that he was a mere 8 years old when taken by his father.  If he had lived in Canada until 15 and attended public school, he may have been able to make a different choice that day but that isn't what his life was.  Even if it was, it doesn't change that what  happened in the US afterwards was against his Canadian rights.