Hello All,
I'm not going through a Med board, but I came across this discussion and thought I would add a comment and a question or two.
The NDAA of 2011 authorized a reduction in the required years of commissioned service to eight years. However, I don't see any Mil Per or ALARACT that discusses the actual implementation, just the memo from the Secretary of the Army to the USD (P&R) and her response giving him permission. She subsequently extended the reduction to 2018. The guy above seems to have well over 10 years of AFS, so the NDAA of 2011 is irrelevant, I guess.
But I have to agree that if he has ten years, he has ten years and I don't know why the Army would have denied him his officer status in retirement. But then I also see the part where upon completion of 30 years total service in any branch in any component automatically reinstates the soldier's highest pay grade and rank ever held. I wonder if this also means a revised monthly paycheck to reflect the officer rank.
For myself, I am a reserve officer and will have 20 years of AFS soon, but want to remain in the military. So I am wondering if I can retire with active duty benefits if I apply for retirement from a reserve or IRR status. And since I see all the problems some of you above had, I wonder if I retire now with less than 10 years of commissioned service if my pension will revert to E6 pay and not O3E.
I'm not going through a Med board, but I came across this discussion and thought I would add a comment and a question or two.
The NDAA of 2011 authorized a reduction in the required years of commissioned service to eight years. However, I don't see any Mil Per or ALARACT that discusses the actual implementation, just the memo from the Secretary of the Army to the USD (P&R) and her response giving him permission. She subsequently extended the reduction to 2018. The guy above seems to have well over 10 years of AFS, so the NDAA of 2011 is irrelevant, I guess.
But I have to agree that if he has ten years, he has ten years and I don't know why the Army would have denied him his officer status in retirement. But then I also see the part where upon completion of 30 years total service in any branch in any component automatically reinstates the soldier's highest pay grade and rank ever held. I wonder if this also means a revised monthly paycheck to reflect the officer rank.
For myself, I am a reserve officer and will have 20 years of AFS soon, but want to remain in the military. So I am wondering if I can retire with active duty benefits if I apply for retirement from a reserve or IRR status. And since I see all the problems some of you above had, I wonder if I retire now with less than 10 years of commissioned service if my pension will revert to E6 pay and not O3E.