You ever serve a day active duty?
People can get RIFed, and leave the service as an enlisted. If they retire, normal procedure is to pay (retired) at highest rank held.
Save your anger for the FOBBETs that play combat vet when the best they did was briefly transit the combat zone.
IMO - non-starter, non-issue
Yes, as a matter of fact, I did serve in the US Navy as an electronics technician and nuclear reactor operator. I have an honorable discharge. Since you ask, did you?
You have to hold the rank for 2-3 years, depending on the grade, to retire at that grade.
In 1973 I was hitchhiking to my quarters off base from Ft. Lewis twice a day (newly wed) and a sad thing I was seeing from my rides who often were officers who had battlefield promotions were them being drummed out or at least offered demotion if they chose to stay in.
“People can get RIFed, and leave the service as an enlisted. If they retire, normal procedure is to pay (retired) at highest rank held.”
No. The benefits are paid based on your final pay.
Final Pay Defined Benefit that equals 2.5% times the number of years of service times the member’s final basic pay on the day of retirement Primary retirement plan for Reserve members with initial date of entry into service prior to September 8, 1980
High-36 Defined Benefit that equals 2.5% times the number of years of service times the average of the member’s highest 36 months of basic pay
If they retire, normal procedure is to pay (retired) at highest rank held.
His promotion was very specifically conditional and he agreed to the terms with his signature. In other words, his situation was not normal.
The "stolen valor" issue is irrelevant to me. OTOH, the circumstances of his retirement suggest he is a weasel. His actions in office prove it.