15-year Letter Air National Guard

[stevenveteran]

How do I access the 15-year letter. I have 18 years of satisfactory service between guard, reserve and active duty. I am PDRL retired and VA Disability. Thank you for any help in this matter. I just can't figure it out.

Saw this relevant post but not sure how to access or request letter:

At a minimum, assuming you are currently a member of the Selected Reserve and you have at least 15 good years of qualifying service, a disqualifying physical disability makes you eligible for a non-regular retirement when you reach the age of eligibility, which typically is 60 absent qualifying active duty deployments which may reduce the eligibility age. The relevant statutory provision is found at 10 U.S.C. § 12731b.

The Selected Reserve, see 10 U.S.C. § 10143, is comprised of Troop Program Units (TPUs), Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) Soldiers and Individual Mobilization Augmentees (IMAs).

 

[Provis]

How do I access the 15-year letter. I have 18 years of satisfactory service between guard, reserve and active duty. I am PDRL retired and VA Disability. Thank you for any help in this matter. I just can't figure it out.

Saw this relevant post but not sure how to access or request letter:

At a minimum, assuming you are currently a member of the Selected Reserve and you have at least 15 good years of qualifying service, a disqualifying physical disability makes you eligible for a non-regular retirement when you reach the age of eligibility, which typically is 60 absent qualifying active duty deployments which may reduce the eligibility age. The relevant statutory provision is found at 10 U.S.C. § 12731b.

The Selected Reserve, see 10 U.S.C. § 10143, is comprised of Troop Program Units (TPUs), Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) Soldiers and Individual Mobilization Augmentees (IMAs).

It should have been issued to you automatically. When did you serve? Back in the day there was a requirement that so many years needs to be Reserve/Guard. That requirement isn't there anymore but how the law works is based on when you entered service.

If it was issued to you but you didn't see it check iPERMS or whatever the equivalent is for the Air National Guard. My wife's letter auto populated there shortly after medically retiring but she didn't get anything in the mail.

 

[stevenveteran]

I served Army Reserve 1988 to 1990, Active Army 1990-1994, Air National Guard 2006-2018. Can't find Iperms. Thank you if you have any other ways to help me access, I would appreciate it.

 

[Provis]

I served Army Reserve 1988 to 1990, Active Army 1990-1994, Air National Guard 2006-2018. Can't find Iperms. Thank you if you have any other ways to help me access, I would appreciate it.

You would need to contact Air National Guard. Its possible since you have time in different branches that they don't have all of your information. It's going to be a pain in the neck. NG is state. The earlier stuff was run by the Federal Government so that can complicate things. First thing you want to do is reach out to Air NG. Ask them for it. If you can't get the answers you may need to ask your congressman to get involved. If they determine that you should have gotten one but do not have it the Air NG should still be able to issue it and if not the ABCMR could order them to if you need to go that route but that's the last ditch effort because it takes years for the ABCMR to make a decision.

 

[stevenveteran]

You would need to contact Air National Guard. Its possible since you have time in different branches that they don't have all of your information. It's going to be a pain in the neck. NG is state. The earlier stuff was run by the Federal Government so that can complicate things. First thing you want to do is reach out to Air NG. Ask them for it. If you can't get the answers you may need to ask your congressman to get involved. If they determine that you should have gotten one but do not have it the Air NG should still be able to issue it and if not the ABCMR could order them to if you need to go that route but that's the last ditch effort because it takes years for the ABCMR to make a decision.

Thank you

 

[Provis]

How do I access the 15-year letter. I have 18 years of satisfactory service between guard, reserve and active duty. I am PDRL retired and VA Disability. Thank you for any help in this matter. I just can't figure it out.

Saw this relevant post but not sure how to access or request letter:

At a minimum, assuming you are currently a member of the Selected Reserve and you have at least 15 good years of qualifying service, a disqualifying physical disability makes you eligible for a non-regular retirement when you reach the age of eligibility, which typically is 60 absent qualifying active duty deployments which may reduce the eligibility age. The relevant statutory provision is found at 10 U.S.C. § 12731b.

The Selected Reserve, see 10 U.S.C. § 10143, is comprised of Troop Program Units (TPUs), Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) Soldiers and Individual Mobilization Augmentees (IMAs).

Reread this post while doing research for a more recent post and realized an error in my response to you. You didn't get issued a 15 year letter. A 15 year letter is only issued when you discharged with no retirement. Since you are medically retired there was no 15 year letter was issued. It's only done with you have 15-19 good years and are medically discharged. A 15 year letter can't be used to get VA pay and reserve/guard pay at the same time. So there is no benefit to getting it. The only way to recoup any income lost due to VA offset would be CRSC. You only need be retired to be eligible for CRSC assuming you are losing money due to the VA offset and had a high enough CRSC approval %. You already meet that one of many requirements with your PDRL retirement.