Army reserve retirement guide Form 2019-2022

Depends, while in the Nam we had an 18E in the Mobile Strike Force which required almost continuous enemy contact. I received a message from our higher headquarters to have SGT Pendergast sent to Can Tho and then report to the American Embassy as requested by his father. We were like who the hell is your old man. He was really upset and said damn he found me. His father was the Under Secretary of Defense and was visiting the Nam. He requested to see his son. This guy had a ticket to a soft assignment to a nothing job but instead he enlisted went Airborne and completed Special Forces Training Group (now called the Q Course). He requested the 5th Group and a dangerous assignment. After he returned from Saigon he was kept in the rear.The guy had huge steel balls, he just wanted to be one of the guys. This left only one commo guy on A-401 and a month later he was WIA in the head but survived and was sent home. This was when I got my wish to be sent to an A-Camp. I took this photo while he was waiting to leave for Saigon.he told me two stories when he used his influence. He said that his 2LT in AIT was a really cool guy and he asked him what would be his dream job. The 2LT responded with Embassy duty in London. His orders arrived before the AIT training was completed.While going through Jump School. Every morning the trainees would ground their equipment while in formation prior to the start of the day’s training. Equipment like hats, jackets and TA-50. One day when he returned his equipment along with five other trainees equipment was missing. The 1SGT told the six that they would have to sign a Statement of Charges which meant that the cost of the items would be taken out of their pay. Pendergast told the five not to sign because it wasn’t their fault the items were missing. The 1SGT stood in front of him and gave him a direct order to sign. Again he refused and the 1SGT took him in to see the Captain. The Captain gave him a direct order and again he refused. Then he requested to make a phone call to clear up this mess. They aloud the phone call. He said that he called his father and explained what had happened. Then he held the phone toward the Captain but said “be careful what you say the man on the phone is my father the Undersecretary of Defense. He said the Captain stood up and all that came out of his mouth was a series of ‘yes, sir!’

For one thing, you begin collecting Reserve retired pay at age 60 not 63 and collect as early as age 55 if you have been mobilized after 2022. You can deduct 3 months from age 60 for every 90 days mobilized or deployed since 2009.Any active duty time like AIT, basic training and any annual training performed will adjust your basic active service date, so that does count towards your 20 year retirement active duty retirement.Your weekend drills days gets added on the back end after you have completed 20 years of active federal service (AFS). 48 drills (4 points per weekend drill) x 3 year is about 5 months roughly, so retire with 20 years afs, they would pay you for 20 years 5 months of service.The 3 years od reserve time counts for longevity raises. E4 over 4 years, etc.

Well, you could just run, and never look back. Keep going. Forever. Well, for a little while at least.The real question is why can't you make one weekend a month and 2 weeks a year part of your life? Thats only 170 days out of the year, and I'd be surprised if that were the actual schedule.Anyways, that gives you another 195 days a year to do what ever you want. Lol.(Incase you missed it, that's the most polite way I know how to say ‘suck it up’).