Air force prior service had 5 active air force and 12 reserve, now in the Army for the last 3 years says he can retire now?

CSM Tim Bebus - A non-regular retirement begins retired pay at age 60, unless the member had qualifying active duty for early retired pay eligibility after 28 January 2008, in which case for every 90 cumulative days of qualifying active duty, the age at which non-regular retired pay begins is reduced by 90 days. Which could very well be 59.5 years old, if the member had between 180 and 269 days of qualifying active duty, which would give them 6 months but not yet 9 months of early retired pay eligibility, which does not come with early eligibility for TRICARE. That is still set at age 60 for non-regular retirees. Cheers,

LtCol William Bentley Sir I was trying to base my guess at pay based on how the time was layed out in the question. I do agree with everything you stated

CSM Tim Bebus - You were closer than Government work, for sure. Even 6 months off out of 60 years is only off by less than 1/10th of 1%! Outstanding! Cheers,

He needs 12 AD to complete his 20yr. For Guard 20yrs with min points of 50 for each of those years. Depending on Rank and points, say an E-7 you would little less than half of an AD Soldier.

SSG Dennis Mendoza - That would be correct, if he has 12 "good" years as a reservist and 8 Active Duty, he is eligible for retirement under the "non regular" reserve retirement. He still wouldn't get paid until he was 60 (minus some relatively new reductions for deployment time). He could finish his enlistment, go IRR, retire and transfer to the Retired Reserve, where he would be a "Gray Area" Retiree until he met the age requirement. What he needs to do is make sure that he gets a 20 year letter from the Reserves to make that official.

CPT Lawrence Cable yeah he keeps saying that he can retire right now if he wants to and he's on active duty right now station in Fort Sill.

SSG Dennis Mendoza Don't know the Active Duty rules, but he certainly could drop a packet and go home in the Guard or Reserve. If your question is can retire and stay on active duty, that would be no.

CPT Lawrence Cable well no can he dropp the retirement packet while currently on active duty, that's what he says that he can drop his packet but he's active duty right now. I know on the national guard and reserve side he can but on active duty seems weird to be able to do it if he only has enough time for reserve retirement