4 months confinement already served.....fine, reduction in rank and loss of a huge amount of money.....not fine.
Isn’t retirement pay based upon the highest rank one attained while on active duty?
The current retirement system is based off of the “High Three” formula and not the base rate of the rank you hold on the day of your retirement. Most of his pay will be at the E-7 rate so the hit is not to big but if he stays in, each month will lower his retirement pay and it’s probably safe to say that he would not be promoted back to Chief with a court martial in his records. He can appeal his demotion and sort out the pay differences down the road.
He’s losing 1/2 pay for two months.
That is not a huge sum of money.
Where is his go-fund-me. I will donate to it.