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01-07-2012 | 10:03 PM

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15 Year Retirements

Saw this on the cover of the AF Times. Anyone think this could apply to a reservist with 15 years worth of points? What a score that would be!

01-07-2012 | 10:59 PM

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absolutely glorious...nah...not gonna happen

01-08-2012 | 03:35 AM

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I don't recall reservists getting the 15-year deal last time around (early 90's). It's easier to cut reserve costs, just eliminate the billets...they don't have to actually terminate you, you can stay in the IRR and drill for points if you want the retirement that badly.

The 15-year deal is so the DoD doesn't get slapped with a lot of media and congressional pressure for firing a bunch mid-grade O-4's with war-hero credentials.

01-08-2012 | 05:23 AM

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01-08-2012 | 08:10 AM

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Saw this on the cover of the AF Times. Anyone think this could apply to a reservist with 15 years worth of points? What a score that would be!

I got one in 1994. Of course, I had 11.5 years of active duty as a USNR. All those points applied.

01-08-2012 | 02:13 PM

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I got one in 1994. Of course, I had 11.5 years of active duty as a USNR. All those points applied.

I have 15 years worth of active duty points. Heck, kick me to the road with a retirement and make room for an expensive active duty guy to come over to the reserves. At lesser rank and cost.

01-08-2012 | 03:45 PM

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I have 15 years worth of active duty points. Heck, kick me to the road with a retirement and make room for an expensive active duty guy to come over to the reserves. At lesser rank and cost.

Yeah, they asked me if I wanted to drill non-pay for my last 4.5 years or take my points and retire. Since I had 4500+ points, it took about a nanosecond to decide. The unintended upside was there's a reg that says you can't do annual active duty the year you retire and I already had orders to be the Harbor Control Officer in Haiti. They were open ended, too.

Those got cancelled.

01-09-2012 | 07:13 AM

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Fishfreighter...

Just to clarify, when you retired, are you a gray area reservist waiting until age 60 to draw compensation? Or were you able to retire and draw compensation immediately?

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01-09-2012 | 07:45 AM

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Well, I don't know what a "gray area" reservist is, but my reserve retirement doesn't kick in until 60.

01-09-2012 | 10:29 AM

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That makes sense. You were allowed to retire as a reservist and at age 60 start collecting. What I am waiting to see along with many others is if this law will allow reservists with 15 years worth of active duty credit or more but under 20 to retire and start collecting compensation immediately. I doubt this will happen as it would be too good to be true. One can always hope.