The final days

[MIDNJAC]

Related question though, what should your MAAS (MAS?) code read once approved? ARR is pending right?

 

[snake020]

Related question though, what should your MAAS (MAS?) code read once approved? ARR is pending right?

It's just ARR, whether pending or approved. This is from my ETJ, and I received my retirement orders close to a year ago:

 

[Hair Warrior]

It's just ARR, whether pending or approved. This is from my ETJ, and I received my retirement orders close to a year ago:

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So you have pirate availability now?

 

[Python]

My ASOSH on BOL and NSIPS shows 20 years and I have my retirement orders letter that PERS-9 sent to me last year effective next month. Is there anything else I need to do besides disappear in the ether and eventually get a retiree ID once someone updates my status in DEERS?

I can’t overstate how overwhelmed I am with envy. Congrats.

 

[Flash]

Allowing the opportunity to sit in the gray and build a higher pay is in exchange for keeping us on the books for a recall during that time, if needed. Should one decide the risk of recall is not worth it, you can choose not to go gray and get off the books, locking your pay at today current scale.

Interesting, have not heard this before (not that I've ever actually cared to look). Slightly unrelated, I remember when my dad turned 60, and he exclaimed "well they can't call me back up anymore". The skillset of a career active & SELRES P2V pilot probably wasn't a game changer in 1996 though (or 1990/91 for that matter)

Yes, you can be 'discharged' from the reserves completely and not transfer to the 'Retired Reserve', where you are still technically eligible for recall. A reserve handbook I got when I first go in the reserves highlighted the two options and strongly recommended the 'retired reserve' one where you got the COLA adjustments while waiting for retirement whereas if you are discharged, no adjustments until you are retired I believe. I got the impression this was something folks used to do or could happen if your paperwork was not done right but along with the SBP you have to proactively take that option nowadays. I don't know a single reservist who didn't transfer to the Retired Reserve.

 

[snake020]

Yes, you can be 'discharged' from the reserves completely and not transfer to the 'Retired Reserve', where you are still technically eligible for recall. A reserve handbook I got when I first go in the reserves highlighted the two options and strongly recommended the 'retired reserve' one where you got the COLA adjustments while waiting for retirement whereas if you are discharged, no adjustments until you are retired I believe. I got the impression this was something folks used to do or could happen if your paperwork was not done right but along with the SBP you have to proactively take that option nowadays. I don't know a single reservist who didn't transfer to the Retired Reserve.

If we're in a situation where we're recalling retirees, chances are I'd want in the fight anyway.

 

[Flash]

If we're in a situation where we're recalling retirees, chances are I'd want in the fight anyway.

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The Army got to that point, with a few folks. I worked with 3 or 4 Army recalled retirees in Iraq, they were all volunteers though.

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

Related question though, what should your MAAS (MAS?) code read once approved? ARR is pending right?

It doesn’t matter because you’re going to stick around and be CNAFR Actual, right?

 

[MIDNJAC]

It doesn’t matter because you’re going to stick around and be CNAFR Actual, right?

Lol no thank you. And to that point, the downside of "sticking around" is doing much of your work for free.