Recent content by Supermech21

You guys are all right about the truck, but I'm not going to sell it. My wife and choose to buy a larger vehicle to do home projects and more importantly haul my dogs on family trips, we decided to get a truck to meet both of these needs. I understand I could put a lot more in my tsp without it...

Informative post. I feel like most of that response was aimed at my last comment of finding a job in d.c.. I suppose I would look into contractor work if it was their but I was mainly talking about the plethora of government agencies, and working for one of them. I have seen the misuse of...

Panetta didn't get to be the secretary of defense by being the only open minded Civil Affairs believer. Whoever follows up behind him will be in the same boat, also along with the CIA director who wrote the book on UW...which is something CA can do, and a conventional general purpose unit would...

I appreciate the personal insight and helpful tips. I promise you guys (I would bet anyone who would like to take me up on it either) my job is as safe as it can be. The drawdown that affected a lot of your stories is real and a threat, for the other 100 some MOS'. we had 100% promotion rate for...

Every eligible e6 from the course before mine was promoted to e7... We are in the process of standing up a second brigade, so in the next 3 years active duty civil affairs will completely double... Not only are we growing, it's at a staggering pace. Washington has realized that it is more...

Not toot my own horn but I'm in the one and only growing career field in the Army, and we're only going to get bigger. 4 man teams will replace 100 man companies in my line of work, promotions are just about guaranteed and I'll have my TS in the next year. Point taken on college and my bachelors...

I'm finally refinancing my home, here's the Stats: Current loan Interest rate - 5.25 Principle payment - 705 Impound pay - 151 Total monthly - 856 Total interest paid - Old 28 year old loan amount - 123891 Refinanced 30 year Interest rate - 3.875 Principle Payment - 595.40 Impound pay -...

You are my hero. You are very disciplined and I'm going to make a effort to put a little more in. Props to you my friend!

Your right, I should be paying more into my tsp. As I said I handle all the bills and manage to pay a little extra into the mortgage, I'm not going to be able to max contributes for a little while, that would be over $1000 a month into my tsp.

That's a good point. I changed my job a year ago so that promotions would be much easier. I'm an e6 now and should easily make e8 by the time I retire.

Thanks for the timely replys, I will definitely check out that book. It's hard to accurately plan for retirement in the military because there are so few retirement calculators that understand how our pension pays out and changes every year. I was vague in my retirement explanation so I will...

Hi, I'm new to these forums and relatively uneducated on proper financial decisions.... A little about me, I'm 26 and I have been in the Army for the past 8.5 years and plan on retiring at or near 38years old (2023). I understand that I will need another job and plan on working in DC for an...