I occasionally get a question that I can't answer on my own, and this one is of general interest to many of us. Can you help this military retiree with an instruction reference or a website? Here's their question: I retired from the Army and Army Reserve after a total of 29 years. Six of those years were active ...
This guest post is brought to you by an Army officer who's been voluntold for the Selective Early Retirement Board. For you younger readers who've never heard of such a heinous process, the drawdown military is partyin' like it's 1994 all over again. (If you're interested in contributing a guest post, please see ...
(If you've found this page from a search engine, you'll want to read the first part of this two-part post.) This post answers the rest of a reader's question: "I was curious whether there are any benefits for people who got an honorable discharge after finishing the six-year obligation they signed up for but chose ...
A reader writes: Nords, can you talk to me about my son joining the military? Here are some things we are wondering about. Times are changing and the way it's run doesn't give the kids the options like they used to. For example we are told they are releasing them at four years and not letting them sign back up. A ...
Let me start this post with a couple of our household's famous naval sayings: "You are such a freakin' nuke." -- My spouse, USNA '83, to me, USNA '82, many times over the last 30 years. "You hear her? Someday soon you could be a freakin' nuke too..." -- Me to our daughter, NROTC '14. The Secretary of the Navy has ...
"Should I stay or should I go?" Yeah, I know, I can still hear that Clash hit rockin' Bancroft Hall's passageways at the Naval Academy. It "encouraged" the plebes to think about their choice to quit or stay, but the tune became my personal retention anthem for most of my career. A reader asks: I was wondering ...
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Doug Nordman