[quote=rickair7777;475602]
- Unlike the ANG, the navy reserve WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES allow someone with 16 years AD to go on orders long enough to get a regular AD retirement...since the reserves, not AD, would have to pay for it. If you decide later that you want to finish 20 years AD, you would have to find a full-time ANG job for four years.quote]

Not entirely true. It's case by case. I know a few reservists that have retired off of ADSW orders(not the normal business rules). I am working with a reservist as we speak in my civilian job that just got another set of ADSW orders that will take him over 20. It's all up to that specific community and if the requirement is there for a billet to be filled with either a RC on AD orders or an AC member, the billet will be filled. It's not very common if at all in the aviation world in flying billets. Most of the retirements I have seen have all been from dudes serving on Major staffs working for some N code with a 2 or 3 star going to bat for the requirements.