Finally out....lol after ten years of applying....and trying and repeating again....finally got a government job with the state working in the department of transportation. Gonna love that pension.
Congrats but anyone hitching their retirement wagon to any pension anywhere hasn't been paying attentions or the last decade. I and a lot of my comrades have zero faith that our military retirement will be there when it's time to collect, I would plan for the same. If it is there, then you'll have beer/cigarette money.