Hello dumdum but that has not been the case for a number of years, since 1986 to be exact. You get 40% at 20. You get 50% at 30.
There is no one in the military who will retire at 50% at 38 not that there ever was that many to begin with. Less then 11% of service members go to 20.
I thought that 50% number was BS. It used to be 50% at twenty years and 75% at thirty. I remember the “lifers” saying they were working for “half pay” after twenty years.
What Ryan and the other over paid elitists refuse to see is those in the military aren’t paid equally to their civilian counterparts. They’re afraid they’ll lose their brilliant, over paid, IRREPLACEBLE aides but they don’t give a damn if they lose career military.
I beg to differ with you on the year of 1986 I retired in 1987 @50% for 20 years and it was 75% for 30 years. I do not know when it changed but know for a fact that it wasn’t 1986.