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The final days
- Thread starter snake020
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It's just ARR, whether pending or approved. This is from my ETJ, and I received my retirement orders close to a year ago:
I can’t overstate how overwhelmed I am with envy. Congrats.
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.
If we're in a situation where we're recalling retirees, chances are I'd want in the fight anyway.
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.
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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.
Hearing a retired senior Captain who was the CNIFR CoS talk about his daily 3-4 hours of unpaid reserve work in his evenings wasn't a motivator to stay in.
Yeah, I don't think the math really even math's......unless you're like super junior at the airline job. Lose too much money otherwise. It would be especially lame if you didn't live very long after the pension started, which I don't think any of us can really accurately predict. Might even contribute to not living as long after full retirement. My old skipper is in one of those jobs, and he said he does work every single day (unpaid of course).