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Thanks for the suggestions folks, I really do appreciate it.

Hi all, I have a question that hopefully someone can help me out with. My dad was a WW2 Navy Veteren and Pearl Harbor survivor. He died many years ago and kept several uniforms from when the war was over. Now that my mom no longer wants to keep them, I don't know where to find out about how...

I stopped watching US news because it always seemed slanted with bias. I have started watching RT News on the internet. It seems a little bit more of world news with the US thrown in for good measure.

Also, do a search on like Youtube for building with cinder blocks. After Germany was so bombed out from WW2, they used cinder block construction to reduce the future possibility of destruction from fire.

thanks for the replies. I just talked with Spectrum and they have gotten too big. The didnt seem to care about her age or whether or not she was retained as a customer. I even called ATT as much as I dislike them and they said they don't provide traditional home phone service for her address...

Hi all. Hope your day is going well. My question for the group is regarding traditional home telephone service. My mom has home phone service through Spectrum currently and I'm trying to help her stretch her meger monthly income. She is looking to find another home phone provider that she...

Well, I spoke with a TSP rep on the telephone and found out some intersting points. First, you can not roll over a tTSP into the ROTH TSP and pay the taxes. It is structured so that when you want to invest in the ROTH TSP, they set-up a new ROTH TSP section on your TSP account and you can only...

Samclem: Not sure but your probably correct about not being able to open a TSP ROTH account after retirement. You can't with the TSP and your not allowed to put new money in either except for rollovers from tIRA's. I had a LTC that worked with me that rolled over his tIRA into the TSP about...

Hi all. I have been searching thru the archives about information on the TSP to ROTH TSP conversion. I haven't seen any real clear thoughts or recommendations for those of us that are 6 to 12 months from active duty retirement (mandatory based on years of service). I will retire in July 2013...

Hello all and hope your having a great day. As I have been going through the forums over the last few months and trying to figure out the retirement thing, my college buddy and I have finally completed the self-publishing of our first book. It was done more for fun and trying to re-learn how...

Nords, it is the typical Govt way of doing business. The first time you think you know what you know you realize you are wrong as it gets. I really think the final choice will be max SBP and let it ride. It won't matter when I'm dead what I had or what happens to my body, I won't be in it...

Well, Friday night after work, I called and spoke with a Social Security Rep for about 30 minutes. What he told me made sense and I learned a few things. First, my wife would only draw a SS benefit after my death until the kids were 18 years old or had graduated high school, which ever came...

Nords, I have always claimed to be the least sharp pin in the cushion so if I have misunderstood the SS form statement, I would rather find out now than later. But here is the cut and paste from the form itself... "You have earned enough credits for your family to receive survivors benefits...

Nords, Our SS discussion was centered on what the SS website had shown on the digital version of the Benefits form that used to be mailed out yearly in the past. As for the joints, I am not severe enough in either shoulder of knee with the tears I have to need surgery right away but am...

We had considered the child-only option but with what they would get from Social Security it didn't make as much sense. We will most likely get the spouse only as max minus what Social Security is expected to pay out. Social Security will provide the buffer until the kids are out on their own...

Thanks for the reply. Right now she gets about 21k a year pre-tax on her retired Army pay and another 15k from VA disability. The SS statement that we reviewed the other day said that if I died today she would get about $2200.00 per month plus what the kids would get. All of that is if we...

Hey all. Hope the group has had a good Monday so far. With my 30 year Active Army retirement coming up next July, the question of the Survivor Benefit Plan keeps popping up. At first my wife and I were really thinking of my signing up for the full ride on that since we have 2 kids (7 and 11...

PeteW, I am not a finance guru but I have been using Vanguard as my family and I prepare for my military retirement in 6 months. We have been saving for years to get to where we are now and one of the best resources I have found has been the Bogleheads.org website. Post a question on there...

Tinnitus issue I also have this due to overexposure to the usual 30 years worth of military hardware. Drives me nuts to sit in a quite place, especially going to bed a nite. I recently saw a audiologist for a hearing check and discussed possible cures for the condition. She basically said...

The whole thing is that I am a type A personality or so it seems after 30 years in the Army. After a week of vacation I am bored and want to go back to work. The wife can't stand me after that and hopes I will leave for the bookstore. When I was going thru the Army War College in 2003, a good...

I don't disagree with you there. I had an uncle that was a real estate investor for about 35 years before he died last year and that is something I feel real drawn to.

As the wife and I look toward my Army retirement next summer, one of the things I had considered was a part time job to keep sanity in the household. Has anyone here performed stock photography work for part time earnings or are you or someone you know doing that now? I admit that a number of...

I retire from the Active Army next year at 52 and feel good and bad at the same time. The bad part is that my dad passed away when I was 16, at the age of 60, so I never got to really get to know him. I hate to do that to my 7 and 11 year old kids. I feel that I have as much an obligation to...

Thanks for the info. I love airplanes and looking at the retirement thing next summer, was thinking that a non-profit that focused on raising funds for restorations and the like would be of benefit to many such tasks. It would also give me something that was a passion to do and bring in some...

Hey everyone. Hope that your having a good afternoon. While posting in another thread, I began thinking of the requirements to setup a non-profit org. Has anyone had personl experience in doing this? Over the years, I have seen a number of non-profits that have supported their choice of...