My wife has 25 years active duty military, with 3 years left till retirement. We have money set aside for an attorney if they mandate this, as she will NOT be taking it.
20+ is retirement. Unless she has obligation left, she can retire at any time. If she has 3 years left on an enlistment, then yeah that sucks. Officers can leave whenever if they don't have obligation from something like a recent pcs.
Or a promotion and you want that extra pension.
I've got 4 years left on my commissioning obligation. At 23 years of service already, I can relate. Best of luck to you guys, we'll need it.
Go find help now. You think you can beat the military, you better have proof its been done before or you will be tossed.
The plan won't be to beat them, but negotiate keeping her current ranks pension with an early discharge.
Military as a branch of government will in fact do their best to ensure they can skip out on paying people pensions then write off that pension monies to give as bonus to a upper level scumbag. They look to find reasons to not pay out, as incentives. This sounds like you’ve already heard what’s coming down to shit pipe. This Covid crap is a perfect way to cut a whole generation or two of benefits away from honest people. You’d be good to start looking into lawyers now and have your ducks in a row before they come to you or wife or whatever.
Best of luck. Remember, she signed her rights away when she signed.
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