Military retirement

The military retirement pay system used to be easy to understand. Then, in the 80's Congress started making changes, making the system a little more complicated.

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Ok i have asked this before in a different way and i am asking again maybe someone can give me some insight. I know about the VA and we have a lawyer we see tomorrow but i was just trying to get and idea. We are worried about keeping our medical right now were sitting at80% disability rating with 75% of our base pay on temporary retirement where he will have to go in every 18 months for review and it can get changed. I know you keep you medical benefits at where we are sitting now what is the lowest rating you can go to for your disability rating i think it is 30% and still keep your medical benefits. I know if you get less than 30% they give you a pat on the back and a severance package but over i believe you keep your benefits. Am i wrong does anyone know because i cannot seem to find it in any info about it anywhere. Oh also does anyone know if we keep our dental?? HELP PLZ!

My husband has been in the army for about tn years and will be getting out pretty soon. I think the FBI or secret service or something will count his military time towards retirement, but I don't know for sure. What other ones are there. We would hate for those ten years to count for nothing. My husband is currently deployed. Though this is his third deployment, this is his first with a wife. And we had a baby in the middle of this deployment. As he puts it, the army is a good occupation for a single guy. It is putting a lot of stress on the whole family. That's why he's getting out.

So say a guy serves in his branch for thirty years. He's got a degree. What does he do when he gets out? Do a lot of companies hire late-40 early-50 year olds with no experience but what they did in the military? Would the retirement pay from his career be enough to live off of without another job? I suppose I'm a bit confused as to what a career guy does after he serves.

My ex husband plans to retire in 4 more years when he's 40. We have 2 kids and our youngest is 11 yrs old. My question is will he still be paying child support for our kids even though he'll be on retirement? How does it work in these cases?

My obligated term of military service was 9 years at the end of which President Ronald Reagan sent me a Certificate of Honorable Retirement from the U.S. Navy. This was about 36" by 24" on heavy parchment, with a genuine autopen Reagan Signature, plus Navy Seal, Plus Presidential seal, plus gold foil, plus blue ribbon. If I take this document to BCNR (Bureau for the Correction of Naval Records) will they agree that I am in fact Honorably Retired from the U.S. Navy. If they agree to that, will they agree that I can have access to the MTF Pharmancies or to Express Scripts, even though I do not qualify for retirement pay or Tri-care, (since 9 years is less than 20 years). I went to PSC in Anacostia. They said dunno, try BCNR. I do have a red ID card that says "RET" and "indefinite" it is a DD form 2 My DD 214, says that my discharge from active duty was "Honorable" The completion of my term of obligated service included six additional years as a reservist. So I got my Certificate from Ronald Reagan at the end of the 9 years. Does anybody know the system well enough to give me some idea of what BCNR is likely to say if I take my case to them. I am indigent, and without my heart pills, which I can't afford, I will have a heart attack. It would cost the government about $600 every 90 days for my pills. They gave AGI $300 Billion so that Henry Paulson's and Tim Geithner's colleagues at Goldman Sachs could be bailed out, and then go back to paying themselves $50 million per year. But apparently $2,400 per year for three years until I get my Medicare is too costly for the government. Not all obligated terms of military service are of identical length. For Navy JAGC officers, when I went in, the deal was three years active plus six years as a reservist, making a total of nine years obligated service. To Redleg --- OK 20 not 9, I get it, so please explain the Certificate of Honorable Retirement with the President's signature and seals on it. It declares in no uncertain terms that I (and it names me, in fancy script) am Honorably Retired from the U.S. Navy. It came to me from the White House in Washington DC. From whence did you acquire the authority to repudiate that document? On what basis are you telling me that it does not say what it says, that it does not mean what it says, or that what it says is in any way ambiguous or unclear? The document is over 20 years old. It's author, who is no longer alive, was authorized when he signed it to declare and constitute me as "Honorably Retired from the US Navy". It is an ancient document, and you may assume that a forensic documents examiner would find it to be authentic in signature and point of origin. Just tell me what your reasoning is to say it isn't so. You saw the number 20, so no other possibilities exist, is that it? Where is this Snarky Cynical Hateful stuff coming from? Why not just assume that What's I'm telling you is true and try to be helpful. What could I gain by posing as something I'm not and asking a fake question? PSD Anacostia told me yesterday that my ID card was red. The certificate I have was signed by Ronald Reagan while he was President, and it is a Certificate of Honorable Retirement. Why would I say that I had that if I didn't? What could the snarky haters be thinking. They must be reversing their own personalities and assuming that I am like them. This is not pleasant. I am not pleased. Could there be someone whose not a pissy a**hole to give me a straight-up answer some knowledge in it, or at least goodwill? What a bad sample of the military section of Answers -- you guys should be ashamed. Let's have some more civil answers please, you mean careless roughnecks can just stow it. Look at the hateful and abusive comment I've gotten here. This man tells me that my ID card has not been issued in 10 years. Yes, of course that is true. I don't go back every year to get a new ID card. He tells me I don't know much about ID cards. True, but why should I? He tells me I'm not really a JAG, not really a consultant to NCIS. How could he possibly know that? Wouldn't that just be the spewing of hateful and dishonorable falsehood? Of course it would be, to say such a thing about somebody one does not know, never met, whose service record one has not seen. So this spiv is going to tell me that becausse by ID card has not been used in 10 years, he knows my service record. He is the fraud. He is a liar. An evil and Bearing false witness liar. The wages of sin.. he knows .. so no need to say it again here.

and other public retirement funds. Does the public retirement funds include military retired pay? If the information is correct, why would seniors receiving those checks even bother filing for bankruptcy? Please explain.

A friend of mine was arrested for choking his wife here in Texas. They filed third class felony charges on him. How will this effect his Military career? He has been in for 20 years but just a few poiints shy from retirement....There were witnesses so m sure he will be convicted. The athoritities said that due to the nature of the charge she cant back out, the state picks it up evn if she doesnt want to press charges. The cops even took pics of her neck..

My parents are both retired military so i know first hand all the awesome benefits you can receive through making the military your career. my question is i might be joining the reserves soon (that way i can continue college and be in the military as well) then after college i was thinking of switching to active duty. welli know you need 20 years to retire and i was wondering if your reserve service goes towards retirement or if it is just Active Duty

"I'm 63 and Im Tired" by Robert A. Hall I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired. I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it. I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money. I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of China , the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela . I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to. I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois. I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government. I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004. I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance. I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough. I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana. I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undo

My boy friend loves me, I'm sure, but... I don't... He doesn't even talk to me at school or hang out with me. And he quit P.E. to join football after we agreed how much we hated that sport and stuff, but I can't break up with him because his parents and big brother are so proud of him for getting a "cute, smart, nice" girl like me. I don't want to break their hearts, though I'd love to take my boyfriend's heart and stomp it into the ground. He says he's going to have two boys *with me* and then go off into the military, though I don't see how, because the only reason he's actually passing the eighth grade is because he looks over my shoulders in class and copies. Plus, he's planning on leaving the *boys* with me until he gets back from *retirement*. I can't help but get the feeling he's taking advantage of me... Any advice?.... :'(

If you are unable to repay them or even refuse to repay them?

I currently receive military retirement from DFAS as a court order following a divorce. How do I change my name and direct deposit? I am remarrying, how do I change my name with DFAS? I have gone to DFAS and there is no specific guidance as to how to change your last name...

Im engaged to a Marine and i was wondering what other military wives do for work? From what i have seen, you can work at base and it will transfer when you get orders to move to another and if you stay in the whole time as your husband who goes for career in the military, you would also get a retirement pension. That sounds like a great idea, but im just worried that if he dies, then what would happen. I want something that is stable and an be easy to move with. I was looking into Medical Coding already. I dont want to do nursing though. I also know that right away or overtime, most just become a stay at home mom. What do you do?

I'm active duty military halfway to retirement and collecting a pension for the rest of my life. I don't enjoy the job though. I have no kids and very manageable debt. I have the new GI Bill. I've always wanted to be my own boss or go into music. Judgement call time...I have 6 mos left..

My high school boyfriend and I just got back together and he is trying to get stationed in Hawaii to finish off his military contract and retire. We want to do this move together. He has a son and I have a daughter from previous relationships of ours. He is adopting my daughter from her father. He is an E5 rank in the National Guard and has 7 yrs before retirement. We are not sure if he can get us housing or not there. What I am asking is how can we get the housing we will need with his rank and not be married? We dont care about military benifits for me we just care about us being able to be together he is currently going through a divorce and neither of us is ready for marriage again. I heard it also depends on his rank if we can get housing and not be married. How does that work for him? He has custody of his son and he is full time active in the military right now. I was reading that he may be able to get us housing depending on his rank. How does the depending on his rank play into housing? Everyone wants the adoption my daughter is the one that gave us the idea in the first place. We both been married and we are not ready for marriage just yet. His soon to be ex wife is using his daughter s leverage to control his life and make him miserable. She wont let him have a girlfriend but she can have a boyfriend. I stay out of that the best I can and when he gets stationed to Hawaii he isnt going to leave us behind at all. Now the more I am finding out we are going to have to do some reconsidering the marriage thing and come up with a prenup type of agreement for the both of us. i am only trying to gather the facts and discredit useless information I found here on Yahoo about exceptions to military housing and not being married depending on their rank. Dont take this as arguing with anyone that I am not doing what so ever I am new to the military life and just trying to get the straight facts. I did see here on Yahoo Answers that you could live on base housing without being married depending on their rank and situation. Like I said I am just trying to get nothing but straight facts and discredit the exception clause I had seen. Thank you to those who have KINDLY helped in the answers I have received.

I know a little bit about banking/investing/retirement accounts, but honestly not much about the Roth IRA's which everyone tells me to start setting up. My husband and I are 23 and we're a military family. We already have our TSP set up with a few grand in and currently have a little over a hundred every month being contributed. I also wasn't sure if I should keep it at that amount or be contributing more? With Roth IRA's what fees are involved, how much should I contribute each month, what are the policies for early withdraw if that is even an option, best banks to go through and on and on? When I actually go into the bank I want to know better what they're talking about so I can make a more informed decision so any help from you, or links to great articles are greatly appreciated.

My sister in law was over last night, and she told me my husband is lying. I'm having a hard time understanding this. My husband served just over 3 years in the USMC. He was also a corporal, and was honrably discharged. He has been to the VA and had a mental evaluation with mild PTSD, and is getting disabliity. How is that possible that he's retired? What does this mean exactly? He makes it seem like the house and the car are paid off. I thought you had to serve over 20 years to get retirement pay?

I have been Divorced for 2 weeks now. The whole situation was complicated. I have been married for 18 Years to a Warrant officer in the Us Army. We have 3 children. He has had other woman over the years but I still staid with him. He mentally abused me but I still staid here for our children. Two Years ago I had a heart attack and it woke me up instantly. Last summer I had planed to visit my sick Mom in Germany and he didn’t want me to go. We had so many problems by then in out Marriage and I wanted out finally. I left and he got Divorce papers. Upon my return he traten me if I don’t sign this paper I cant take my youngest child with me. He was hiding her passport and everything. We argued so much that I landed in the hospital again with almost a second Heart attack. That night before the hospital he pushed and shoved me around and I had a very big Bruce on my shoulders.Two Days later I went to his CO and I wanted him out of the house till I leave to go back to Germany. He didn’t help me and nothing happen to him. He came back home that night like nothing happened. I signed the papers and went to Germany in September. My whole Family and friends are telling me to do something about this now sine he is keeping everything I worked for in 18 years. He does not pay Alimony and I have no income. I had to sell my car to live on. I don’t have Medical insurance and I am heart sick. What can I do so I can make sure now I get Retirement pay and Alimony and insurance???

Hi, So, I have one brother (an older one). Since he is my only sibling, I do watch out for him. He is dating a girl that I think is a gold digger. They have been dating for 3 months. So far, he has paid for many dates, given her a lot of money, bought stuff for her mom and her. She had even asked him for a Coach purse. He said not right now (the one she asked for was $700 something and they have been dating 3 months!), but he would get it for her for Christmas 2010. They have actually already been talking marriage. They started doing that at 2 months. I took a trip with her to see my brother and she mentioned stuff to me that really kinda was tell tale signs of a user-- she told me that she was going to need health insurance when she got done with school and by marrying my brother she would get it (he is in the military and when they get married, the spouse gets health insurance. Also if they stay married for x amount of years and then divorce, if he retires from the military, she automatically gets half his retirement). She went through his clothes when we went to see him and was like I don't like this, you can't wear it and she literally put some of his clothes in a trash bag and took them home with her. She gave some to her mom I think and the rest she gave away. Most of my brother's clothes my mom bought him, I think she was in the wrong to just go through his stuff and say you can't wear this anymore and not even give them to our mom to see if she would like to sell them or something. Also, she is close to her mom which is wonderful. I am glad, but the thing I hate is that when my mom calls my brother to talk, his girlfriend complains that she calls him too much, yet she talks to her mom a lot more than my brother talks to our mom. I feel like she is trying to alienate him from us and for lack of better words, make him only be concerned with her and her mother. I have tried talking to him and he went back and told his girlfriend everything and then blamed the way she reacted on me. I refuse to take that blame because he was the one who told her. It was meant to stay between me and him. Like I said, they want to get married, I have tried talking to him and he won't listen. What do I do?

I am getting out of the military(us army) and will be medically retired. I am fairly young with a spouse and 2 young children and would like to move to panama. I have a contract job that will be taking me to Afghanistan for a year where I will make a good chunk of money in that year and after I get back would like to take that and my retirement pay to panama but don't know where the best place is for young children but also to relax and enjoy the atmosphere. Somewhere that is not real crowded but I would like to buy a boat to enjoy the water and also the wilderness. I know this is alot but any serious answers would help. thanks........ also how are the school systems? is crime a real problem?(I understand their is crime everywhere but is it above normal?)

My brother who served 2 years in USMC, learned he was retired, and now saying everything is paid off. He's only 37. What does that mean exactly? Will he still receive a monthly check? He's been bragging to everyone that he doesn't have to work anymore, and it's annoying. I'm happy for him but how much will he really get for only 2 years of service?

I an a 63 yr old disabled American . My people came here 200 yrs ago legally and I was a military wife for 23 yrs .My x -husband was damaged good by serving in Vietnam and his state of mind lead to our divorce . He was a Grand Marshal In the ticker tape parade in new york in the home with honors parade in ny NYC and I now live on Half his military retirement and I have just gotten kicked off medical assistance and I Only make they say $7.00 to much to remain on it.I am pissed off ya.How can this be DO they need the money for illegal immigrant's. Does anyone but me see something wrong with this . Are we giving away our country ????? I didn' t throw any one out thank you he wanted out he is still running away from himself , he has been married 4 times now . He has mental problems not addressed by our { will take care of you government }

Recently my husband and I have been playing with the idea of him staying in the Navy until retirement-20 years. He's already been in for 4 years, and just started his re-enlistment for an additional 4 years. We enjoy traveling, we don't have any kids, and don't plan on having any in a while. We're fairly young, I'm 21 and he's 22. We've been together before he even joined, so I know we can handle anything the Navy throws at us. We see the positive aspects-seeing different locations must ppl don't, health and dental benefits, free housing. I mean to me, the military really takes care of us. But then the negative sides, missing out on family events, his long work schedules. We're very conflicted and would very much appreciate any other comments or opinions from others. Thanks! Pretty Boy- the Navy is the only military branch where you have a few select choices of where you'd like to be deployed. He will always choose to pick a location I can be with him.

I know if someone left the Air Force (or military) after 20 years, they would receive a check for 50% their pay. However if they decide to continue, would they receive their retirement in addition to base pay? The reason I'm wondering is, if there is a civilian job that pays more than the 50% difference, wouldn't people be more incentivised to leave and take the civilian job?

I know many people under age 70 are as healthy as an ox. So make the people retired at the age 70, instead of 60 or 55. There should not be any early retirement.... only people at age 70 are allowed to get SSI and medicare and other benefits. And people in military too... My sister is 45 and she gets military retirement checks... so they need to raise the retirement age to age 55. I hope President Obama is reading this. trying to do something about the US debt. Most people at my age don't have a job anyway... They might as well stay with their parents who aren't retired yet.

My husband is retiring after 26 years in the Army - any party, gift, etc... ideas? We are both 43 years old. He is a green beret.

I am close to retirement from the military. I am looking for advice from other military retirees as to experiences from retirement job hunting. I will retire as an O-5 over 22 years and would like to know if there is a consensus on what kind of income one needs to make to maintain the level of when on active duty (considering BAH and BAS are not taxable as well). I am fully aware of the good deal of retiring with 50% or so when I'm 45 years old, but I don't want to work my fingers to the bone to maintain that level of income.

i thought it could be drawn right away....anyone help me

I want to know if I can obtain my social sercurity money and also get my military pension at the same time?

When I was a child, I was forced to wear braces. That's fine, as I see no problem with my parents wanting beautiful teeth for me when I get older. Well, now I'm older. Once my braces were removed two years after getting them, I was required to wear a retainer for pretty much the rest of my life. A year later after a military move, I'd lost my retainer and eventually gave up in general on it. About another year later, all of my teeth shifted (not that noticeably) and through that I needed 9 fillings due to the enamel that wore between my teeth. (from the shifting, of course) Now to the fun part. Allow me to say this with the hopes that a dentist trips over this question, because my respect for your field of work is so small it's almost a joking matter. The dentist that performed the fillings, through the whole operation, was a complete moron. Through the midst of blood and metal he found it in his best interest to continue small-talk and gossip with the dental assistants. Why he had two of them? They were younger women, as he was a younger man. He continued to make drug reference jokes, and continued to talk about his engagements after work all the while drilling through my teeth. After all of my fillings were complete, and I paid such a hefty fine that I could gag at the thought of it, I went home. Four months later I started receiving intense throbbing and stabbing pain in one of the teeth that he had worked on. (By this time, "Doctor Long" had already moved to another practice so seeing the dentist that ruined my life is impossible at this point) I went to the same family dental institute, to which they had no idea what was wrong and decided upon diagnosing it as, "the fillings that were used are severe heat and cold conductors". After a twenty minute argument, I went home with a bottle of wannabe aspirin and the idea that I shouldn't drink cold drinks, nor eat hot foods. A month later, it continued. A gum boil appeared above the tooth that was giving me problems, and finally they understood that it wasn't just a temperature problem. "Oh, you have a gum boil it's no big problem. Your options are to have the tooth removed, or get a root canal after taking antibiotics." I chose root canal, and with doing so I ended up taking clindamyacin for a course longer than six months. (I'm now currently still on clindamyacin) After the first month, they assumed the infection went away and began the surgery on the tooth. "Oh, shit." (My new dentist) It seems my tooth bled out during the operation, and they cannot continue the operation as I still have the infection. (This happened six times, at the end of every month until current time) I went in, "sorry still have the infection" and would be prescribed clindamyacin.. again. Eventually after the last time I went in my previous dentist (whom of which has also left the practice due to 'retirement') seemed to have a personal problem with Dr. Long. Dr. Long is the dentist that first did my 9 fillings. Through that, he decided to tell me, upon me asking, that my tooth became abscessed from a filling that went wrong. Cool. So you mean to tell me the dentist that spent two hours talking about how to dissolve percocet the fastest, and what dinner he would be having tonight had ruined my filling? Yes. Well, I thought nothing of it, as I had high respect for dentists for the fact that their job requires them to make decisions that could generally be a 50/50 chance and they take full responsibility for it. Until this now. The final time I entered the chair, and the final time they attempted to finish my root canal.. they decided to put another temporary cap over the hole. (Yes, you've guessed it. They couldn't complete the operation due to the infection) The clindamyacin had finally cured my infection, and I called the office to schedule a new appointment. I had to call and schedule a new one as my current dentist was leaving for retirement and that was the last day I would see him. Well, the due date was ridiculously far away (3 months) and they figured that temporary filling I had over my root canal hole would definitely hold until then. Wrong. One month after the call, my filling had impacted inside the root canal hole, and decided to rest ALL the way inside the hole. I had figured it fell out, as I could stick my tongue through my tooth hole pretty much. I didn't assume it went inside my tooth since I didn't feel any pain at first. Three days after that happened, which makes that day last saturday, my tooth went psychotic. It hurt worse than both car crashes, and anything else I've ever been through. My gum boil didn't come back, but my tooth became so excruciating to the point where I decided to play doctor myself. I heated a needle, and pushed it through my root canal hole in an attempt to deaden any nerves that weren't deadened the first time around. Stupid idea, but it led to a glorious answer. Parts of my old filling fell out, and that smell came back. That abscessed t

Husband and I recently started up our TSP. We're 23, and he's 1 1/2 years in and plans to go the full 20 to retirement. We started the first few months all in the safe G fund since the economy sucked, and now have switched it all over to the Lifecycle 2040. Currently we have about 2300 in the account with 114 going in monthly. I was curious how other military members faired with the TSP over the years. Make money, lose money? It's a little hard to make recommendations with differing economies, but any advice to us? I also would like to start up a Roth IRA, but know nothing about them. How much to put in each month? What's the return? Any info would help really.

According to military.com, iraq and afghanistan vets have won ptsd retirement deal. More than 4300 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who were diagnosed in service as suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, have won an agreement with the Department of Defense to upgrade those ratings retroactively to 50 percent. The higher rating will represent an important win for this group of veterans mentally scarred by war. ALSO RETROACTIVELY, does this meen they will reemburse me since day one of claim?

When you serve 20 years in the military and then retire honorably you are required to serve 10 years inactive reserve time. Is there an inactive reserve commitment for someone how has completed 25 years of active service or more? This is concerning the Air Force. If it is different for other services, would like to hear about that as well.

Texas where it was earned does not have state tax. Some of Ca. state retirees don't pay taxes

I'm having a vocational dilemma. College is drawing closer, faster. I was thinking about joining ROTC, because the military is a good deal. Also, I respect the hell out of the military, and I can retire at 40 with excellent retirement benefits. In college, I plan to get a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Pre-Law. The thing is though, my passion is music. One day, I did hope to go to the Musicians Institute and see how that panned out. What should I do? I've worked out a couple scenarios. I do ROTC, take the 4 years in college to hopefully get the rock star bug out of my system by gigging and whatnot, and enjoy my military career. Don't do ROTC, try to pay for college AND Musicians Institute (which isn't cheap), try to become a professional, and join the military before I'm too old assuming I am unsuccessful? Go through ROTC and serve my required years, then go to LA to try and be a musician, but miss out on the military's excellent retirement benefits. Serve my military career gigging in bars and clubs and hope that fulfills my desire to make music. Or avoid the military all-together, while trying to be a musician? Or just go to law school or get a normal job with my degrees? Just as a P.S., when I say rockstar, I was being facetious. All I meant was be a pro musician like a studio musician or something. I don't care if I don't make alot of money, as long as I can support myself. I know this all sounds kind of silly... but I've been losing sleep over this. I'd really appreciate any kind of help I could get. Maybe I should get an appointment with a therapist even? Thanks I appreciate the answers, but is there any more?

Narcotics units -Immediately grow facial hair, tell everybody you were ordered to. -Start watching every episode of Monster Garage. -Buy a biker wallet with a big chain. -Make every case involve overtime $$$. -Buy bunches of boats, RV's, and motorcycles with that overtime. -Learn to play golf drunk. SWAT units -Wear team T-shirts, Oakley sunglasses and boots everyday. -Try to fit the word breach in to every conversation. -Have a mirror handy to check hair, if you have hair. -Never say hello to anyone who is not an operator, just practice your SWAT head nod. -Subscribe to Soldier of Fortune and Muscle and Fitness. -Learn to play golf wearing a gun. Community Service units -Hate SWAT. -Work to make everybody love you. -Paint your office in pastel colors. -Think Feng Shui. -Subscribe to Psychology Today. -Learn to play miniature golf. Traffic units -Write tickets to EVERYBODY. -Spend every weekend cleaning your bike and polishing boots. -Annoy everyone on the radio calling out your stops. -Talk about nothing but how many tickets you wrote in one day. -Ride by a building with big windows to see your reflection. -Golf is lame, motor rodeos are cool. K-9 Units -Become sadistic -Show pictures of your latest dog bite -Brag about your largest drug find -Smell like a dog -Workout 3 times a day -Show off your bruises Administrative Units -Three-hour lunches everyday, tell everybody it's a "meeting". -Upgrade police department cell phone every month. -Tell everybody you are published in a national law enforcement magazine. -Update your revenge list on a weekly basis. -Golf Rules! Play lots of golf. Patrol Units -Has nerves of steel. -In a terminal state of nausea from department politics. -Inability to keep mouth shut. -Has defining tastes in alcohol. -Is respected by peers. -Beats the crap out of his caddy on any bogeyed shot Investigators -Come in at 0800 -"Breakfast" from 0815 to 1030 -Work from 1030 to Noon -Noon to 1400 Work out and Lunch -1400-1700 Sit in CID and talk about how many girlfriends you have and how the wife doesn't know. Plan your next RV, fishing, motorcycle trip. Patrol Sergeant -Remembers very well "how we used to do do it." -Always willing to tell his officers the above. -Tries to fit the word "liability" in to every sentence. -Talks about "what he's hearing from upstairs." Trainee -Unable to grow facial hair. -Watches every episode of Cops. -Worships the ground the SWAT guys walk on. -Arrives for work three hours early. -Thinks the sergeant is thrilled to see him. -Won't drink on the golf course because it violates the open container ordinance. FEDS - Shave head, and grow goatee (unless you want to be a management weenie, then make sure you are clean shaven, with short almost military style haircut). - Wear 5.11 pants, and polo with agency logo (unless you want to be a management weenie, then make sure you always have a shirt and pants to which a jacket and tie can be quickly added for when the boss might be around). - Arrive at work at 8AM, spend one hour answering useless emails, and 30 minutes checking your retirement investments. Then go with another agent to Starbucks "to discuss your a new case." - After participating in your first warrant service (as outside cover) make plans to join the agency SRT,SWAT, etc, to "properly utilize your superior tactical skills." - After doing your first buy bust, immediately begin asking the boss about "long term undercover" jobs. - Refuse to play golf with "the locals." New Corrections Officers - Show up for work 15 minutes early - Buy only the best ink pens (Pilot G-2) - Wear T-Shirts of your "dream department" under your uniform - Wear a full duty belt of gear even though you have to remove: gun, baton, spare magazines, knife, cell phone, and BUG when you arrive at the facility - Become friends with every local police officer - Continue eating too much and not exercising

Im wanting if the doctor will give me a permanent profile 3 for my back and start Med board. My question are what is possibility might happen to me. Return to duty or medical discharge. I really want to get out of military, but ARMY is my career.I deployed twice and had a suicide attempt during deployment.wondering if i can get out of military. I cannot handle any possible deployment xand heavy lifting in the ARMY.I haved acid reflux, anxiety, deppresion, flashback of deployment and have family to take care.Im I eligible for medical retirement board.

My 65 y/o retired widowed vet neighbor is about to claim his taxes but, because of his children is iffy about what he should do. He has 2 children and his daughters husband in the home of course all over 24 one is a full time student of which earned a little over $2000. another does not work, and her husband worked and earned right under $5000. Can he claim them as dependants if they chose not to file? Will he need to report their income? How would this work. They said if he can claim them they will allow it so that his tax liability would decrease since he has to pay taxes on his military retirement. He also draws SS but, I know you don't have to pay taxes on that...Any suggestions you bright individuals? He does provide WAY more than 1/2 for all three of these children as they are....., well by income I guess you all can guess for yourselves.. So by what you are saying, even if the daughters husband does not file HE can claim her right? The son that is a full-time student and only earned $2000 can also be claimed by him correct? These children have NEVER moved out of this home, and have ALWAYS lived off of him and HIS money. The daughter has 3 children of which her ex has custody of. If you can paint the picture, I am basically trying to benefit him, since they can not benefit from it. I did work their taxes for them and while their federal was like $600 range their state was only $90 they chose not to claim because the fed would take their refund due to daughters husbands defaulted student loans. They say they know that this helps pay them off but, they are greedy little pickers,and if daughter can't have it her way then she don't want it.

This is a difficult decision. I want to get a Vette as a retirement gift for myself (nearly 20 yrs military), but I want one that will stand out and one that not everyone has. Should I get a ZO6, a Grand Sport or a Base Coupe tuned by Lingenfelter or Calloway? A ZR-1 is too expensive and I don't need 638 HP. I want the ZO6 if for no other reason than to be unique and destroy any pesky Mustang owners. Be specific in your answers please.

I am getting divorced from another service member, can she be entitled to any retirement befenits if shes in the Army and we haven't hit 10 years yet? I rewrote this for a dick head LOL

I'm 30 and readjusting my investment strategy a little bit. I'm active duty military and have been contributing to the TSP for the past couple of years. However, no matching for Active Duty so I am no longer contributing towards it and believe a Roth IRA is a better choice. I do currently have a Roth IRA (URFRX) through USAA. I'd like to be sure that I'm investing in a decent fund. What other funds should I be looking at, to be sure I'm investing in the best. I do like the funds that change as I age, for example, the Vanguard VITVX (Target Retirement 2045) fund. I haven't shopped for Roth IRA's in quite some time and to be honest there are so many websites out there..expense ratios are different etc. So I am looking for some assistance. Thanks in advance!

Hello i'm thinking of entering the U.S Army and i would like to ask some questions about it. 1.I would like to know how the ranks work. how long does it take to move up on average? does it require alot of extra effort or just doing your jobe and staying out of trouble. which career frields move up fastest in rank? 2. would a juvenile felony(burglry) stop u from being able to enter the army? what can i do to improve my chances? 3. Is the military thrift savings plan like a 401k? does it stack with regular retirement? when your frinally over 65 do u get 401k or do i have the wrong idea? 4. If i got an associates degree in military science how would that effect me upon enlistment? would it benefit my paygrade/rank? 5. how much does an averege elisted member get paid after taxes like E3 for example? 6. would I get sent out to war right after BMT? what are my chances of getting sent out? 7. If i got my bachelors degree while in the army would they promote me to an officer? do i have to re-enlist as an officer or go to officer school? 8. should everything go smoothly and i became an officer how long would it take for me to hit colonel? Thank you for those who take the time to read this. I'm almost done highschool and i'm really looking for a career path and i think this might be a good one for me so please answer any questions you can. tnaks again :)

Family income $29,000 3 school aged children, one w-2 and one 1099 getting back $8,089 in federal. Does this seem right. Standard deduction not itemized. Did not buy or sell anything, no winnings, no bonds, stocks retirement, military. Just normal. We normally get back $5,000 or less... Makes me feel better. this is first year of doing myself. I am sick of handing H&R $400 or more every year.

The presidents job is to run the federal government not to run America. I feel as as an American that my constitutional rights and my freedom are being torn away at by a government that is power hungry and corrupt. Our government was not made to control the country, which is what it is evolving into with new socialist health reforms, and overpowering police forces which have nothing better to do than pick on kids on skateboards, and give unreasonable tickets to old people. No one now a days has respect for anyone, and I personally dont like how the government babies the American people with shit like complaining about the amount of fat people. WHAT THE FUCK if we were free people then we should be able to get fat if we want to,and the outlaws of trans fats in New York City, our government is becomming more and more communist with every passing day, and THE PEOPLE CANT EVEN SEE IT COMING. I feel held back by the stupid system that we now live in, all because people are willing to trade away there freedom an civil rights so they can have a stupid widscreen TV or brand new non-american piece of shit car. (which by the way was taxed by the government.) Taxing is just a way for the government to take your money to spend on things like a heathcare reform that is going to screw over sooooo many people, and is a HUUUGGGEEE money investment being made by a country who's in debt. Oh ya, and what about social security which is now just a form of taxation, because its supposed to be for retirement by by the time you get there guess who already took it all. I think the government needs to get the fuck out of the way and let me live my life in peace, unless I am doing something to hurt other people like they are, then they should just stick to controlling the military, dumbass police force, and mail system. And the fact that they want to take away my right to own a gun is ridiculous, how the fuck am i going to protect myself from people breaking into to my house, or from THEM. because by the time they take away our gun rights we will have even less say about what goes on then we do now. A small government could work and would be ideal, but government by nature grows,and it grows and always wants more power, so a small government would be unacheiveable. and im not going to let into that one world goverment shit, because it will lead to the apocolypse EVEN THE BIBLE SAYS SO. that is why i have come to the conclusion that if we dont turn around right now, then our only choice is to destroy the system. We as the people could function without one. People say that eveything would go into chaos, but why? Wouldnt people be just as inclined to band together to work to become better as a whole, and there would be people who would try to pull shit like breaking into to houses and robbing stores,because theres no law enforcement. but the amount of people who would want to better the world would fight those who dont. and people would protect their own and live their lives people are supposed to and that is freely. because the people would come to know basic morals as laws, not that they are held by, but that they are guided by. And it wont be perfect by any means but nothing is and it would be a hell of a lot better than what we are heading towards. So PLEASE do no just disregard this message but instead take into the account of the truth it has, and the intent that it has, and that is to educate the people who read it. you might call it radicallist or crazy,but I could say the EXACT sam thing about you.

Hi all! I'd like to join the US Navy as a career. I've worked hard to get to where I'm at in my life. I lost a ton of fat (55 pounds and 10 inches off my waist) and I have an Associate's degree and a Bachelor's degree. I love to travel and serve my country on top of putting in my retirement pension time too with lots and lots of other benefits. However, I do sometimes suffer from migraines. I've never been clinically diagnosed as having migraines but I get about 1 - 2 of them a week. However, I can always remedy them with Tylenol, Excedrin Migraine medicine, some rest, etc. I've been getting migraines all my life as as far as I can remember. Will any US Navy recruiter disqualify me automatically for it from joining anyway? Someone told me that she's going into the Marines and she said they didn't mind it because they'd be willing to work with her condition. I'll be okay as long as I always have access to take my medicine whenever I have to. We're all human. Nobody has picture perfect health. The whole US military has a huge shortage now because so many potential recruits can't join because they're either overweight or obese. I would think any branch in the military would have to work with people on various issues to get recruits anyway. What do you think? Thanks!

The office at JAG is closed for now, but I plan on making an appointment asap. So, I was hoping for the best info I could get before I consult an attorney. Husband is Army E-4 with 7.5 years in, no articles 15's. DC BAH is around $1790. Been married the last 4.5 years of that. I am legal resident of Maryland, his is Hawaii or home of record is in Montana. No kids. Neither one of us cheated. He called it irreconcible differences. We have always had separate checkings and savings account, retirement funds, etc. Only real debt is car @$7750 left. He plans to have me move out of the residence at the end of March since his LPN at Walter Reed starts in early May. He plans for us to sign a legal separation agreement at end of March since in the state of MD, a couple must be legally separated for a year before they can get an absolute divorce. MD says it is an equal distribution state. SO, question is how much is he required by law, if any, to pay me in support? We'd still be legally married until April 2011. He says I will get my health & dental insurance still and that he will pay me $700/month and pay the car off & put it only in my name(will be around 1.5-2 years left in payments). He's been planning this for so long and knew so many of the laws, and it came as a shock to me when I thought we were about to just have a serious talk about the relationship. He says we are not happy and not fair to one another to stay together. I have gone through a series of emotions. Even when I got to the point where I started getting mad, I was using a normal tone of voice, but asking very direct questions. Last night he just threatened to take away some of the monthly $budget. I want it to work out, but he's already made up his mind and only has to wait due to the law. He does not want to go to marital counseling. Renting a room here to keep my job in a high cost of living area, is a tough choice since hard to find another job. My family is in Alabama so I'd probably move back there. I make only $14/hr here & once I did find a job in AL, it might be only $12/hr. I currently work as an 1:1 aide at a private school for emotionally disturbed students and also have experience with autistic spectrum disorder. What legal suggestions and tips do you have? Thank you for your time in reading this and offering advice.

i am doing a report on my goals for the future. i'm having trouble finding info on retirement requirements for the military any link will help