SavedByGrace1981 Posted October 27, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,923 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 462 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/02/2011 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/22/1953 Share Posted October 27, 2016 45 minutes ago, Churchmouse said: I was in the Army when the Berlin war fell. I remember the government started up The Early Out program to reduce the military, by giving bonuses to get out before your enlistment was to come due. Only those who were promotable to Sargent and above were to participate. I was a Spec 4 (P) in anti-aircraft artilary and was given the choice of either getting out early with $19,000 or being pushed out with $9,000 in a couple of months. I took the $19,000 and about 6 months after I left, I received a letter in the mail from Uncle Sam saying I was overpaid and they wanted $1,000 back. I never responded to it, but this goes to show you that this incident wasn't unique. I just wonder if it weren't for it being in the middle of an election years, would we be hearing anything about this at all? I just wonder Thank you for your service. Just to illustrate this is not a new thing, let me relate my experience that goes back to the 70s When I joined the US Navy in 1972, I signed up for a six year hitch. This was very common in those days - the Navy offered good technical training and advanced rank (E3 after boot camp, then E4 after school). For those like myself that enlisted under that program, they (we) had a choice to make at our 4th year: we could extend by 2 years (making a grand total of 8 years enlisted) and get a $10000 bonus; or not extend (original 6 year enlistment) and get a $4000 bonus. Along about 1974, the Navy decided to arbitrarily change things. Enlistees could still get the $10000 by extending to 8 years; but the original agreement was not going to be honored. Those of us who signed up for 6 years and decided not to extend would get . . . nothing. So a class action suit against the Navy was started. Long story short - the decision went against the Navy in about 1977, so I did get my $4000 before I got out in 1978. But like I said - this is to just show stuff like this is not new. Blessings, -Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shiloh357 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 9 minutes ago, SavedByGrace1981 said: Thank you for your service. Just to illustrate this is not a new thing, let me relate my experience that goes back to the 70s When I joined the US Navy in 1972, I signed up for a six year hitch. This was very common in those days - the Navy offered good technical training and advanced rank (E3 after boot camp, then E4 after school). For those like myself that enlisted under that program, they (we) had a choice to make at our 4th year: we could extend by 2 years (making a grand total of 8 years enlisted) and get a $10000 bonus; or not extend (original 6 year enlistment) and get a $4000 bonus. Along about 1974, the Navy decided to arbitrarily change things. Enlistees could still get the $10000 by extending to 8 years; but the original agreement was not going to be honored. Those of us who signed up for 6 years and decided not to extend would get . . . nothing. So a class action suit against the Navy was started. Long story short - the decision went against the Navy in about 1977, so I did get my $4000 before I got out in 1978. But like I said - this is to just show stuff like this is not new. Blessings, -Ed It's not new, but it is still an outrage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavedByGrace1981 Posted October 27, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,923 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 462 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/02/2011 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/22/1953 Share Posted October 27, 2016 1 minute ago, shiloh357 said: It's not new, but it is still an outrage. Agreed! Blessings, -Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted October 27, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,780 Content Per Day: 6.24 Reputation: 11,224 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 6 hours ago, Churchmouse said: I just wonder if it weren't for it being in the middle of an election years, would we be hearing anything about this at all? I would hope we would hear about it. This isnt a mere 1000 dollars. This is more significant and causing more damage to folks. Whether or not this is business as usual for the military, it needs to be addressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Gator Posted October 27, 2016 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.74 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted October 27, 2016 39 minutes ago, ayin jade said: I would hope we would hear about it. This isnt a mere 1000 dollars. This is more significant and causing more damage to folks. Whether or not this is business as usual for the military, it needs to be addressed. If you look at how the other post on this forum framed this discussion, I have no faith we would have heard about it, we did so because it was politically expedient for it to come out now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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