If he is in the Reserves now he didn't retire..he got out at the end of his obligated active duty time. I had to do that when my husband retired. His parents were in poor health and the USMC wouldn't move me to the west coast as it was his parents not mine so I was not eligible for a humanitarian transfer especially since I had only been at HQMC for a bit more than a year. So I resigned my regular commission and took a reserve commission, which really hurt my pride, and did the rest of the time in the Reserve Component. I got lots of active duty and lots of promotion boards..I really scrounged for every billet I got. Also did time in the MTU where you drill for points but no pay. The more senior you become the harder it is. My last position was with the MWR IMADET at Camp Pendleton. That unit is now dissolved..shame too because after the first Gulf War the whole concept was to get class VI gear over there quickly. Lots of the corporate knowledge was lost after the Viet Nam PX Marines retired...anyway we had a good start but then came the rifs...and our units were cut down and some cut out.
Oh, really? I always thought he retired then went back in, but I believe you (we speak another language at home and something must have gotten lost in the translation). At any rate, he went to PLC at UCLA and was planning to be a Marine his entire life. He was a Marine even in my mom's stomach! He was a Recruiting Officer at UCLA after 29 Palms. At some point, he was in Somalia; his lung collapsed there and he was evacuated to Germany. Then, he got married to a stewardess (I refuse to be pc and say flight attendant) - the marriage didn't last but she made him leave the Marines... and take a desk job. He was miserable, needless to say. The more action he sees, the better. He went to Afghanistan for about eight months right after 9/11.
It's just hard on us, and especially my parents... but we've always been ever so proud of him. Thank God, IMHO, people are more patriotic now too, so there is more support. During the Persian Gulf War, not that many seemed to care or understand. And, thank God I have you guys now.
That stinks what happened to you... :( Are you still in SoCal?