Originally Posted by
tangowhsky
I'm seeing it this way more and more. I suppose i've been working off of the ole 5 stages of grief about the passed over bit...just hard when we all know we have earned it, and barely miss the cutoff.
I knew a number of good people who got passed over for O-5 (and a few real whisky deltas that somehow made o-6 and O-7). It's a fallible system. Put the hurt behind you and do what makes the most sense. But the numbers are pretty close no matter which way you jump:
https://militarypay.defense.gov/calc...ay-calculator/
The advantage to finding a way to stay to twenty is both the healthcare and the certainty that the pension will be there, even if you become medically disqualified tomorrow. That's not a clincher necessarily but it is a factor to consider.
And three more years, by the time you count terminal leave and everything, heck you could be interviewing in a little under two and a half years.