[PROCON]

20 year retired (1993) Air Force C-130 pilot BIL got a request from Dept. of the Air Force, back in 2011 asking if he, (and others), would be interested in coming back in for 3 years to pick-up the slack for critical AF pilots to do their misc. staff duty.

He agreed and did 3 years as the OIC in the control tower at Hickam AFB at Pearl Harbor.

Went back in as an O-4, did his 3 years and they bumped his retirement pay from the 1993 level to the 2014 O-4 retirement pay.

[GreyFriar]

Thank you for “re-upping” to take up “the slack.” You remind me of a distant cousin who retired as an infantry major in the mid-1930’s and was recalled in WW2 to do a similar “admin fill” for the duration to release younger men for combat service.