Posted on 11/08/2014 10:12:25 AM PST by kindred
There are plenty of security agencies that could use his skills. Why doesn’t he go work for one of them, unless he is a nut.
Especially if he's a nut!
Yep. 20 yrs unless you get some sort of a medical retirement. After 20 you get paid 50% of your highest base pay and medical coverage. The payment will go up 2.5% for every year served over 20. There are other options to this one, but this is basically it. It’s nice to have for sure, but this guy won’t be broke for long. Lot’s of opportunity coming his way if he plays his cards right.
Everyone, and I mean everyone who signs up knows what the magic number is. 20. You have to do 20 to get paid. Hero or not, it’s 20.
LOL!
He’s on the do not hire list!
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Haven’t heard of many people putting in 16 years, with only 4 to go an calling it quick. I don’t think he made a very smart decision. BTW, is there and reason he can’t re-enlist for a 4 year hitch and then accumulate his 20?
Okay, so I made a couple of typos. BFD!
Thanks for the reminder of the evils of Obama, military hater in chief.
At 38 and if he did have 20 years, would he get that pension immediately?????
When I was 38 I had 16 years of svc. with my company which I am currently retired from with 35 years of svc.
But if I had left at age 38 with the 16 years of svc., I would have had to wait another 22 years (age 60) before I could start my Vested pension, and at that time it would have been a 34% reduction and based on my salary when I left.
In another article I read, this guy left the military on his own accord. He was not disabled nor was he forced out.........I have no sympathy for him if his father is pleading poverty.
He's gained an enormous amount of skills from his service and there are plenty of opportunities for him in the private sector........
1. Why did he separate after 16? (Again)
2. The rules are “20 for a pension, ret ID card, etc.” I imagine he knew that when he enlisted. I do believe in the 90s or so there were some different programs although I have no experience with them.
3. The only explanation I can find for the statement he “does not even have health insurance” is he does not have a service connected disability. Which all things considered, I find almost unbelievable.
4. And the biggest thing I question is why are more and more guys that shouldn’t be talking, talking. They said they wouldn’t, and now they are. What’s up with that? (rhetorical).
I think they should all spill everything they know that this admin illegally covered up. Everything regardless of the damage. Because the damage only grows worse by the day the longer the illegal BS is protected.
As for the books for profit thing, the ethics involved are murky to be sure. What is right and wrong when you have a POS leader stripping you of your earned benefits and it is a legal option to redress that?
Tough call.
Or he never existed. Yeah that’s it.
He's in poverty because he left the service four years before qualifying for his pension and isn't making it as a motivational speaker. I'd say it was his own fault.
Well that’s too bad. He could make up the rest needed for retirement with a Fed. Gov. job. They accept your active duty time for retirement purposes.
Isn’t it really 19 years and 6 months? I seem to recall if they bounce someone with less than 6 months to their 20, they still qualify.
I hope he’ll have a better life when Obama and his goons are gone.
“...a POS leader stripping you of your earned benefits...”
I agree with your assessment of the Pres, but what benefits were stripped?
Did I miss that in an article?
Why the hell should he get a pension? He didn’t do his 20.
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