US Military?

Question

I know you can retire after 20 years service, but what about reservist? Would anything happen if you were in the Reserves for 20 years, or is it just Active Duty?

If you were a reservist for 4 years, and then switched over to Active, would you be able to retire in 16 years or another 20?

Answer 1

Active duty is not after 30 years as previously stated, but rather on a % basis after 20. Reserve status earns points, 75 per year, toward retirement and Congress is looking at how to change it now that the reserve units are being utilized more. The retirement age Congress is talking about is 55 for reservist.
If you were in the reserve for 4 then switched you would have what is referred to as a adjusted pay entry date. You would be credited with a portion of the time in the reserves, but not the full 4 years.
Active duty retirement is on a fixed scale. 50% pay at 20 years and it goes up 2.5% every year after. EX. 75% at 30 years and a full 100% at 40 years. They take the last three years of active duty pay for the retirement average.

Answer 2

The best way to think of it, is not to use years, but use days.

So to retire, you need 7,300 days of duty. To recieve 50% retirement pay.

Since most reservist only get credit for around 75 days of service a year.

If you go from 4 years in the reserves, to actibe military, your four years in the reserve, are only gonna count for about 300 days, towards retirement, instead of 1460 days.

So you would have to serve those additional 1160 days on avtive duty, to retire.

Reservist can retire after 20 years reserve time, but do not start drawing a pension, untill they are 55.

And it will not be 50% like active duty soldiers get.

But will be based on total days served.

So a reservist who retires after 20 years, will generally get around 10% to 15% of the active duty base pay for thier rank.

Answer 3

Reservists who retire after 20 years of service in the Reserves don't start receiving a pension until age 55. A four year hitch in the Reserves would count as total military time when calculating your percentage of pension, but you would have to do twenty years of active service to retire and receive a pension immediately.

Answer 4

I know that the reservist retire at 20 years but for the years to transfer im unsure of the changing of branches.

Answer 5

Active duty can start collecting pension immediately upon retirement. Reserve accumulate points based on days of drill and time spent activated. These points add up for a prorated percentage of active duty retirement that they can collect at age 60.

Answer 6

Reserve time only counts actual days in uniform..activated or training, so the typical year with no deployment only gets you around 40 days of actual AD time that counts towards retirement purposes..

Answer 7

full retirement is after 30yrs active duty now but reserve duty is calculated differently. look in up or go to a recuriter and ask