Originally Posted by
LivingInMEM
Retirement pay and sanctuary are two different animals. Retirement is centrally-funded, the AF paid a retirement contribution into the fund for every dollar a person made. Once you start talking inter-service like ANG and USMC, it may get more complicated. However, even then, the retirements are not unit-funded.
Sanctuary is a manning issue, there are end-strength goals, etc and the AD can't have USAFR guys showing up unannounced on their books. It throws the planning off and gives them another body that they have to find something to do for up to 2 years. Technically, if they are held to the numbers, they could lose an accession allocation for every sanctuary body they get.
Do you actually believe that the USAF puts "real" money into a retirement fund for you while you are on active duty? They are not a private company, they are not subject to any retirement funding laws and they, along with all of the other services, are a part of the great unfunded pension liability held by the U.S. Government. Even if they did put "real" money into a fund, it would be raided and filled with bonds.
I don't think it will ever happen, but your military pension could be altered with the stroke of a pen. Think "means test" for a partial reduction of your pension amount or some other alteration such as a delay to age 50 or 55 to start collecting a military pension.