you're only "retired" if you served 20 years
If you served at all, you know that's not true, dude. Medical retirement is a thing, don't pretend otherwise.
https://tricare.mil/LifeEvents/Retiring/MedicalRetirement
DoD Directive 1332.18: SEPARATION OR RETIREMENT FOR PHYSICAL DISABILITY
Permanent disability retirement occurs if the member is found unfit, the disability is determined permanent and stable and rated at a minimum of 30%
Stop being a gatekeeping faggot. You're playing a game of semantics over your personal opinion about the word "retired."
A medical "retirement" is not "retirement." Don't be a dink. He wouldn't sign his name, "Sgt Whatever, US Army Ret."
He's considered medically seperated because he's under 20 years you fucking illiterate dink. If he had OVER 20 years and had a medical condition that precluded him from active duty THEN he would be medically retired. Do you not understand the difference between seperation and retirement?
If he had OVER 20 years and had a medical condition
It's not AND, it's OR, per the wording of the fucking rules you think you understand.
20 years service IS NOT A REQUIRMENT for medical RETIREMENT.
Retirement DOES NOT exclusively mean "spent two decades doing this and stepped out with a lifetime paycheck."
Literal definition of RETIREMENT is withdrawal from one's position.
MEDICAL RETIREMENT is a withdrawal from one's position due to MEDICAL REASONS, and it DOES NOT require having served 20 years. You are WRONG and playing a fucking gate-keeping semantics game over "separated" vs "retired."
Do you not understand the difference between seperation and retirement?
Do YOU, nigger?
https://militarybenefits.info/medical-disability-retirement/
Medical disability retirement – 20 years of active service is not required
Those with less than 20 years of active service and who have been awarded a disability rating of 30 percent (or higher) technically qualify for medical retirement.
There is an important difference between being medically retired and being involuntarily separated from the military because of a medical condition. “Retirement” involves retirement pay, the “separation” option does NOT.
You are RETIRED if you are granted RETIREMENT classification and pay, regardless of the amount of time you spent enlisted.
You're wrong you dumb motherfucker, you stepped on your dick and didn't know the finer points of what the fuck you were talking about, just take the loss like a man you dumb shit.
It's like you got caught being retarded and doubled down in being wrong.
Those with less than 20 years of active service and who have been awarded a disability rating of 30 percent (or higher) technically qualify for medical retirement.
"Technically qualify" is quite different from an automatic designation. You have to have a medical review board and the condition has to be permanent and even then you only qualify, you're not automatically granted status.
I guarantee you this particular dink was medically seperated at best. Sergeants don't get "retired."
Enlist and see for yourself.
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