Projected Promotion and MEB

Noobzor

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So during this last year of the MEB/PEB process, i somehow made TSGT. I have tried to find a hard answer but the info my peblo gave me says MAY separate as projected grade if severance and will be retired as projected grade. My line # will put me about january for sew on, so at my point in this process, i most likely wont see it to sew on.

#1. If i am severanced, will it be at my current TIS and projected pay grade?

Appreciate any help on this, as my peblo is clueless.

Thanks!
 
Should take the average of your last 3 yrs of pay if I remember right. So even if you sewed on, you'd still get the last 3 yrs of SSgt pay
 
So I'm not familiar with severance, but retired pay (even if medical) is high-3, like was mentioned.

I just retired with the same situation. I'm still not sure if it happened exactly how it was supposed to, but here's what happened to me just last month. My retirement orders state "retired at the rank of MSgt", "highest grade held on active duty: E-6". Also, my DD-214 says E-6, and my retired ID card says E-6. I feel like a douche, but I'd like it if they reflected E-7. It actually has come up on job applications with gov't contractors, and there's always a chance SNCO will back up your claim of leadership (management) experience.

Anyway, I could have sworn I read on this board that ID card, and possibly DD-214 would reflect the grade you were selected for. Does not for me. My retired pay does not remotely look at the selected grade, only grade held.
 
According to title 10, you are to be retired at the grade you are to be promoted to. Your high 3 will not change as the effective date of promotion will be your last day of active duty. I was an O3E and made the major promotion list and had my sequence number. I printed off the list and gave it to the retirement services people. I was retired at the grade of Major. The Army put out the list right after Thanksgiving and I went on terminal leave on 15 Dec. they were able to "promote" me in my retirement orders and in the Army personnel systems. After retirement, I went and got a retired ID card and with the rank of Major.

This topic has been covered here. Do some searching and you'll find it.
 
Hrm, im still hunting through AFI's to find a solid answer vs taking what someone heard for fact.

And yes i did search, i did find people talking about the O side of the house having rank selection but didnt see any AFI reference to back it up.

So i guess my answer is that even though i made it, it doesn't matter really (at least financially lol). The reason i was asking about severance is your amount calculation is based off such.
 
Not sure if it's in your AFIs or not, but title 10 of the US code is federal law which would trump an AFI anyway. It is the same for officers and enlisted and across the branches.
 
Here it is:

10 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2010 Edition
Title 10 - ARMED FORCES
Subtitle A - General Military Law
PART II - PERSONNEL
CHAPTER 69 - RETIRED GRADE
Sec. 1372 - Grade on retirement for physical disability: members of armed forces
From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov

§1372. Grade on retirement for physical disability: members of armed forces

Unless entitled to a higher retired grade under some other provision of law, any member of an armed force who is retired for physical disability under section 1201 or 1204 of this title, or whose name is placed on the temporary disability retired list under section 1202 or 1205 of this title, is entitled to the grade equivalent to the highest of the following:

(1) The grade or rank in which he is serving on the date when his name is placed on the temporary disability retired list or, if his name was not carried on that list, on the date when he is retired.

(2) The highest temporary grade or rank in which he served satisfactorily, as determined by the Secretary of the armed force from which he is retired.

(3) The permanent regular or reserve grade to which he would have been promoted had it not been for the physical disability for which he is retired and which was found to exist as a result of a physical examination.

(4) The temporary grade to which he would have been promoted had it not been for the physical disability for which he is retired, if eligibility for that promotion was required to be based on cumulative years of service or years of service in grade and the disability was discovered as a result of a physical examination.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 105; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title V, §577, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2536.)

Historical and Revision Notes
Revised section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large)
1372 37:272(d) (104th through 128th words, as applicable to retired grade; and 2d and 5th provisos).
37:279 (less applicability to 37:272(d) (last proviso)).



Oct. 12, 1949, ch. 681, §§402(d) (104th through 128th words, as applicable to retired grade; and 2d and 5th provisos), 409 (less applicability to §402(d) (last proviso)), 63 Stat. 818, 823.
Clause (1) is substituted for 37:272(d) (104th through 128th words, as applicable to retired grade). The words “if his name was not carried on that list” are substituted for the words “whichever is earlier”.

Amendments
1996—Pars. (3), (4). Pub. L. 104–201 substituted “a physical examination” for “his physical examination for promotion”.
 
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