Originally Posted by Spongebob

3. High Year tenure for an O-4 is 18 yrs. Depending on the mood, they'll either automatically give you a waiver to get to 20 or they'll make you request a waiver. They burned a bunch of dudes a couple years ago when they changed policy to "request" from "automatic" and guys got their walking papers 2 yrs short as a reward for not watching the message traffic.