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I agree. I think I read someplace that he'll hit his 20 in a few months and then retire as a major because of not enough years in grade as an LTC. If he's already been promoted to LTC, then he could hang on for the 3 years time in grade to retire at that rank, but perhaps he made a deal to get the charges dropped.

I had 2 tours in the 1st Armd Div....one enlisted from 71-74. The other as a chaplain from 96-00. Is your OldIronsides about that Division or it about the Ship?

I'm betting that he gets to inspect the readiness of NG cannon cocker units in Idaho until he has his time in grade.
Then he can go on to better things. (with that LTC retirement pay)
I have the feeling that he may have been planning to retire anyway. I think this whole thing was a fluke and he knew that he would not get nuked too badly so he did what he wanted to do, not what he would have done if he had been looking for a bird or a star.
Besides, he was kind of long in the tooth for being as low in grade as he was. I bet he was gone at 20 anyway with the Army's up or out rules.