Originally posted by Chogy
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When I was a Career Planner, our Battalion Ops Chief (E-8) was going through a divorce, and it was reenlistment time. I went to him to discuss submitting his paperwork. He said he wasn't going to do it. The MSgt has 25 years in, so I tell him I'll go to admin and have them start his retirement request. He doesn't do that either.
Instead he gets out at the end of his contract. Doesn't retire, just gets out. At the divorce, judge tells him he has to give his wife half of his retirement pay. She thinks he is retired.
I get to testify that he, in fact didn't retire but simply left at his End of Service date. She has a cow.
Flash forward 5 years, I'm talking to him (he never left Jacksonville, got a job at range control). He tells me the ex wife got remarried and had moved away. After she did that, he submitted a package to the Board of Corrections to have his status changed since he was eligible to retire. They "Corrected his record" and he retired.
Ex got nothing because she had remarried.
Reinforces the old saying "Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894 ...
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