Congrats, pachomius73.
If you're not already a Chaplain Candidate, become one. You get to train and get retirement points.
"Congrats, pachomius73.
If you're not already a Chaplain Candidate, become one. You get to train and get retirement points."
Back at the parish we are VERY, VERY PROUD of him, sinfully so, I'm afraid! :) (We miss him and his wife and kids too, the oldest of whom is my goddaughter!)
While in ROTC I was in the Simultaneous Membership Program. Basically it put non-scholarship cadets into the Guard or Reserve, (I missed the graduation requirement age by 6 months, came in to late) and gave us E5 pay, drill time, and GI bill money.
The one thing it didn't do was count towards was pay and retirement. Anyway, back in 94(?) I saw an Army Times headline that read: Some Officers Get Pay Raise." That caught my eye and as I read the article I saw that the SMP grads would have their time count for pay.
Instant pay raise!
Tell me a bit about being a chaplain. You are talking about in the military?