Originally Posted by
Toonces
1) Telling someone only affects future assignments and FITREP ranking. It wouldn't affect your ability to receive an honorable discharge and severance pay if you stay that route. If it did, you would have grounds for a grievance.
2) Sign up for TAP when you have separation orders in hand.
3) Dropping your letter would make you ineligible for severance pay. You would only receive that as a service directed reduction in force, twice failing to screen for the next higher rank while ineligible for retirement, or other rare occurrences.
4) Yes. See above.
5) When you are 6-12 months out from separation.
6) Yes.
7) No. Voluntarily leaving the service after taking a retention bonus obligates you to paying it back.
Good luck!
This, you can't get the severance if you drop your letter. Let them boot you, pay you, drop you into the IRR, then do this....
Originally Posted by
BDGERJMN
Examine all of your SELRES flying and non flying options, you'd be surprised what's out there and available. Don't discount ANG as well depending on where you decide to live/work post Navy. Good luck!
You can apply to FTS or to individual squadrons as a SELRES, and get picked up for O-4 on the reserve side (and get paid a bonus again for affiliation).
IRR to SELRES isn't hard if you've been hired by a squadron. It literally took me three emails, and signing/faxing some paperwork.
Let them pay you to leave, then pay you to come back. PM me if you need specifics. If you don't already have your airline applications in, and requests to friends for letters of rec, you're behind. Do it now. Great name by the way.