If you've been following the blog for "The Military Guide", you've probably noticed by now that we've been working through military retirements from the "simplest" to the most complex. This is the second week of Reserve/National Guard topics, including a highly-anticipated post comparing an active-duty pension to a Reserve pension.
I could use a good proofread and fact-check. My spouse served nearly eight years in the Navy Reserve, I've read all of the instructions and guides and professional magazines, and we vicariously shared all the retirement dramas at a PACOM unit. Spouse is waiting until 2022 for her own Reserve pension. I think I nailed all the rules and numbers but the bottom line is that I'm heavy on theory and light on experience. I'm also blissfully ignorant of any special quirks or surprises in the rules for the other services.
I won't regurgitate that post here for fear of glazing civilian eyeballs with boredom. However if you're in the Reserves or National Guard, especially retired awaiting pay, or heaven forbid even actually receiving retired pay, then I'd appreciate your good hard scrub on the numbers in the blog post of this title. Feel free to impart your experiences in the comments or point out my oversights there or here, and I'll make the fixes. Let me know if your own Reserve/NG retirement didn't work out the way you expected and what you'd do differently.
I've also put up a post about Tricare Reserve Select and Tricare Retired Reserve. Again I've followed their development over the years and I can read the rules as well as anybody else, but if you're using either of these programs then I would love to hear your experiences.
I could use a good proofread and fact-check. My spouse served nearly eight years in the Navy Reserve, I've read all of the instructions and guides and professional magazines, and we vicariously shared all the retirement dramas at a PACOM unit. Spouse is waiting until 2022 for her own Reserve pension. I think I nailed all the rules and numbers but the bottom line is that I'm heavy on theory and light on experience. I'm also blissfully ignorant of any special quirks or surprises in the rules for the other services.
I won't regurgitate that post here for fear of glazing civilian eyeballs with boredom. However if you're in the Reserves or National Guard, especially retired awaiting pay, or heaven forbid even actually receiving retired pay, then I'd appreciate your good hard scrub on the numbers in the blog post of this title. Feel free to impart your experiences in the comments or point out my oversights there or here, and I'll make the fixes. Let me know if your own Reserve/NG retirement didn't work out the way you expected and what you'd do differently.
I've also put up a post about Tricare Reserve Select and Tricare Retired Reserve. Again I've followed their development over the years and I can read the rules as well as anybody else, but if you're using either of these programs then I would love to hear your experiences.