Posted on Jun 15, 2015
How many RallyPoint members are in a Retired Reserve Status?
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[Update] At the time of transition off active reserve status to Retired status we have an option to become part of the gray area Retired Reserve. Gray area retired reserve are subject to recall to active duty. The gray area status enables our retired salary to be based on the salary in effect when we begin drawing retirement with COLA adjustments later. Those who elect to have their retirement pay frozen in the year they transition off the active reserve rolls so that they will not subject to recall in anything short of a general mobilization akin to WWII.
Personally the thing that bothers me most about being a member of the retired reserve is that if I die before I am fully vested as a retired military service member then I am not authorized any burial benefits. Specifically I can not be buried or interred at a national military or state cemetery with military honors. Secondarily my wife is not authorized any burial benefits if she predeceases me. [I understand as a disabled veteran I could be buried in one of the VA managed cemeteries]
I understand Congress has the full authority to make and change laws and accept that my post 9/11/2001 mobilization will probably not be be credited to reduce my retirement age. I also understand and fully accept that my just under 19 years of active federal service was not in a specialty authorized early retirement.
The military services and Congressional oversight make decisions for the best of the nation's military as they foresee manpower and end strength requirements.
Personally the thing that bothers me most about being a member of the retired reserve is that if I die before I am fully vested as a retired military service member then I am not authorized any burial benefits. Specifically I can not be buried or interred at a national military or state cemetery with military honors. Secondarily my wife is not authorized any burial benefits if she predeceases me. [I understand as a disabled veteran I could be buried in one of the VA managed cemeteries]
I understand Congress has the full authority to make and change laws and accept that my post 9/11/2001 mobilization will probably not be be credited to reduce my retirement age. I also understand and fully accept that my just under 19 years of active federal service was not in a specialty authorized early retirement.
The military services and Congressional oversight make decisions for the best of the nation's military as they foresee manpower and end strength requirements.
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I wasn't sure I'd make it, but finally reached the age to draw retirement... WHOOHOO
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Clarifying question -- I am in the IRR as of 2011, though I did not technically retire from the military. Do I get an ID card for this? Or is this something different? Thanks in advance.
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LTC Stephen F.
2LT Earl Dean - Ref getting your IDEF ID card renewed, you don't need to get it renewed. When you transition to another status go to any military base and go to the personnel office [S-1, G-1, etc.] to get your replacement card. It would be a good idea to call the office first to make sure you know when they are opened.
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LTC Stephen F. - And when you get old enough the card becomes indefinite and no longer needs renewed.
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LTC Stephen F.
Capt (Join to see) - I know my card will become indef when I fully retire. I expect my wife's won't and will need to be renewed every so often. There has been legislation to extend the length of spouse ID card coverage but I don't think it got very far yet.
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I was discharged in 1953. I didn't serve long enough to retire but I think that being wounded in combat and receiving disability payments from the Army qualify me for burial. I'm not worrying about my physical body after I'm dead since my eternal soul won't be in it any more.
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LTC Stephen F.
Amen, well said SGT James Hastings. You are certainly entitled to be buried with honors in a VA cemetery and we both know that you will be immediately in the presence of our Lord and Savior when this body dies. The honors in eternity will make any honors in this life seem less than trivial even though they are important here.
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SFC Patricia JANE Babcock
As a VA rated veteran, no matter which branch of the military family, (AD, NG, Res) you and your family will be entitled to all the VA burial benefits: flag, honors, Presidential Memorial Certificate, state or national cemetery, VGLI/SGLI/SDVLI/TDIP if your premiums or waiver are up to date, a headstone or bronze marker for your purchased headstone, a small funeral/plot re-imbursement stipend if not buried in a veterans cemetery. And if your death occurs at a VA facility, recovery of transporting your remains home with possibly additional financial benefits for your surviving family. Talked to your CVSO or VSO - http://www.nacvso.org or http://www.va.gov/ogc/apps/accreditation/ to learn your VA benefits.
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2LT Earl Dean
When My father died after serving 35 years in the national guard he got a flag and was buried by the troops from fort Leavenworth, he also got his bronze marker but everything else we had to pay for, including head stone. They did a good job with the twenty-one gun salute and taps but that is all there was!
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