Reserve and National Guard Membersare typically eligible for retirement after 20 years of qualifying service, with pay starting at age 60. However,Reserve and Guard members have different retirement pay eligibility requirements, which is why we have a separate calculator for them. Reserve Component me...
With the Final Pay system, retirement benefits are calculated by multiplying the final monthly base pay by 2.5 percent for each year of service. If you retire with 20 years of service, you'll receive 50 percent of your base pay; this goes up to 100 percent ...
Upon retirement, active duty personnel get 2.5 percent of basis pay for each year of service up to a maximum of 100 percent. Suppose you retire in 2015 as a colonel after 30 years of active duty. $10,952.40 Basis * 2.5 percent * 30 years = $8,214.30 monthly retirement pay This is t...
After gaining entrance to the Wildlife Center, we walked down to an arena where there were already elephants drinking what looked like milk from large containers (it wasn’t milk, but a mixture of nutritional components that David Shellbeck had taken 30 years perfecting to maximize the opportunit...