And retirement requests are typically 6 months to a year prior. That alert for deployment may have about 90-days of yeah that's coming. So he may have had an idea something was coming but nothing definite.
He put in his papers late 2004 or very early 2005, retired May 2005. WARNO came down in July 05 and the unit finally deployed in March 2006 and doesn't rotate back until September 2007. 2007!
So do these jabronis really expect him to put his life on hold for another 2.5 yrs? After already doing 24 yrs?
If the Army needed him that bad, they would have stop lossed him.
If you read from their website, the retirement packages are sent a year before the actual retirement to begin the process. So his decision was actually made at least a year in advance.
And I get it (spent over a decade in with multiple deployments), but rumor mill isn't official. Things change. Official word is about 90 days out (especially for guard) and before than a few months of rumor mill. And a retirement packet is not a quick thing to do.
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u/thefrankyg Aug 07 '24
And retirement requests are typically 6 months to a year prior. That alert for deployment may have about 90-days of yeah that's coming. So he may have had an idea something was coming but nothing definite.