24 years total service or 24 years commissioned service? He is 10 year prior enlisted, so he is an O-4 at 14 years total time as an officer.

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There is another way to fly for the ANG/AFRC without being hired as a retired guy. Don't retire, just separate. Retirement pay is not automatic until you apply for retirement.

The pros to this maneuver:

No one has to go through the hoops to get you out of retirement and back on the books.

You will get to stay current in flying military aircraft.

You already have enough points for an active duty retirement, the Holy Grail of many guardsmen/reservists. So at some point about 3 years down the road when this mess is all sorted out, you could really retire and walk from the ANG/AFRC and collect the check, or once you are part of a unit, you could cross over to the retired fly in the ANG/AFRC program and supplement your retirement check, and keep some additional control of your work schedule.



The cons to this maneuver:

You will work approx 12 days as on O-4 to make the same money in various pay statuses to make the same money as you would have in your monthly retirement check. We have had a few people consider this as an option at Laughlin, but then we were able to get retirees going again after the AFRC CC had a change of mind.

You will have to pay for Reserve Tricare as opposed to being covered by the retiree health care system

You may go up to 6 months without pay while a unit does your interservice transfer, conversion of aeronautical ratings, gets you a gaining order to get you on their books, and finds you a training date for their aircraft, if you don't go to a 130 unit.