Originally Posted by
Chillpill
At 18 years, guard/reserve will do everything to prevent you from getting that AD retirement. Very few fall through the cracks. You can have your nose up the cc’s rear, you are not getting an AGR slot. Check of the month is a huge stress reliever.
And to add….guard units in particular do not really want to hire O-4s unless you have some connection there. I’m not saying you couldn’t get picked up…..but you’d be viewed as competition for the local hometown UPT hires of the same rank gunning for O-5. And then….you get picked up at a unit….you get hired by an airline….likely you’ll end up commuting to one of them. I quit my AGR job with 4 years left thinking I could recoup the 4 years for the full retirement. Didn’t happen. The man days and dollars will go to the up and comers. Wish I had stuck it out.