Holy cow, the blog's approaching 300 posts. I've written a lot about financial independence and military retirement over those 300 posts, but I haven't spent much space on bridge careers. I've never had a "real" job, let alone my own bridge career, and after a decade of blissful unemployment ...
It's hard to believe that it's been weeks since the last sea story, but our daughter just finished a month on the USS LOUISIANA for her Navy ROTC summer training. She was at sea for all 30 days, qualified to stand a sonar watch, ran a lot of drills, earned herself a deterrent patrol pin, and is pretty ...
This guest post is brought to you by Marine Corps veteran Rob Aeschbach, who's started a new career as a personal financial planner. The Thrift Savings Plan does not offer matching contributions for service members, but the IRS does in some cases. Here is what you need to know about how the government will pay ...
After you've spent a few months learning about financial independence, you wonder why people think this is so hard. All you have to do is track your expenses, create a spending plan, save money, invest in a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds, and rebalance once in a ...
It's been a few months since I wrote about new links. The sidebar links section is getting pretty lengthy and I'm going to move things around a bit based on what you've told me is useful... and not so useful. When I get the blog out to its own host (probably in October) I'll use a verification plugin ...
I've been getting some e-mails, so let me clarify a few health insurance questions before I start the main topic. Last month the Supreme Court upheld the key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that have attracted so much media attention over the last year. (Careful, that link ...
(This guest post is brought to you by Vince Ramos and the content team for Debt.org – an online organization dedicated to helping Americans manage their finances and stay out of debt.) Military retirement plans are arguably the best available. Military personnel can retire after 20 years of ...
I read a good question on a discussion board: Are years of service for retirement rounded by months? For example, if you serve for 20 years and 6 months, is it only 20 years for retirement (or 21 years)? Or is the 2.5 percent per year adjusted a bit higher to account for a half of a year? So for 20.5 years you get ...
We're military veterans, not financial advisors. We're trying to share what we've learned and to pay it forward – but you have to make your own decisions.
What worked for us will probably work for you, but unfortunately, we can’t guarantee it. Let us know if something’s not working for you, and we’ll try to figure out a better way... Continue Reading...
Doug Nordman