Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Also if you're thinking of doing the guard/reserves and earning a reserve (age 60) retirement you need to do some research...
You will need to do at least 6 years in the reserve component to earn a reserve retirement...you probably cannot jump at 18 years, do 2 years reserve and get the retirement.
I'm fairly ignorant about Reserve retirement, but I thought that if he were to spend the last two years doing the "one weekend a month, two weeks a year" gig, that would give one year's credit towards 20 years. Granted your number of points wouldn't increase drastically. I don't think you need to reach 7200 points to get a reserve retirement. I think you'd still get a reserve retirement at age 60 (payment determined by their formula and based on the number of points you acquired) as long as you got 20 years of service. Couldn't the last two years of service be the "one weekend a month, two weeks a year" type of gig?
Somebody in the know please chime in!