While I think the folks in NOLA couldn’t poor water out of a bucket, you are wrong about the Navy Reserve. In my community we are mobilizing a squadron for its third middle east tour and we’ve maintained roughly 2 squadrons there continuously since before the war began. We started the war as a community that was 100% reserve but we now have 4 AC squadrons and 6 RC squadrons. When I left a couple of months ago were still at 100% utilization and I think you’ll find the same thing or worse is going on with the reserve SeaBee battalions.

You get what you get, move along…

SNIFF; WHIMPER; SIGH; WHEEZE; TEARS; I’M A VICTIM.

Yawn.

That’s pocketbook centric if you ask me-and either way the law is an abomination. I’m with the bronze. Pay me!

Because your argument is about as stupid as the people who claim that their impending foreclosure is not their fault.

Why should the government pay you a retirement for part time work? I’d love to get paid now for my reserve retirement, but if the government paid me now, I’d think they were even stupider than I think they are. (I think.)

I knew the rules, you knew the rules, and as B2 said – pre 9-11 the Navy Reserve was nothing more than a rod and gun club. When I was on active duty, I thought USNR was pretty much a joke – but I didn’t realize how bad it was until I went to the USNR (and I was in a “hardware unit” we really did stuff).

As an officer, getting ahead in the USNR has nothing to do with leadership or warfighting, it is all about going to the right seminars and schools. (Sounds a bit Air-Forcish to me)

Even the active duty Navy leadership thinks USNR is a joke. Want proof? How many “units” have been activated in the past 5 years? Not many. They just use individuals for their particular skills or for the fact that they usually maintain a body temp of 98.6. I’m not saying that reservists don’t contribute – they do, a tremendous amount. But the Reserves don’t do much at all.

Stop whining. You are getting exactly what you were promised. If you don’t like it, write your congressman.

Yeah, that’s the way it is (Pay after age 60) and we all know it when we sign on the line. Does that make it right? Or fair? No, it doesn’t.

West lake Rd, you’re an idiot if you think the government isn’t playing the numbers to screw you. Why do you think that they don’t pay you until after age 60, because somehow you DESERVE not to get paid until you’re 60? That’s utterly ridiculous. They’re counting on you dying before collecting, so they don’t have to pay out. What is the reason that they always give for not lowering the age? Because it will cost too much! Your denial of the reason shows you’re either not smart or not serious.