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Is REDUX still available?
My husband is a warrant officer 2 Kiowa pilot who served 14 years. This week he found out he was passed over a second time for CW3 promotion and we r trying to determine if we should take selective continuation or take separation pay and get out. Promotion rate is likely to dwindle in the next few years so we don't think his chances of promotion will be likely either. Selective continuation only offers 3 more years of service. How about the REDUX retirement plan? Should we take selective continuation and take the 40% retirement pension at his 15th yr next yr?? I'd ask him but he's out in the field til later this month. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks!
He mentioned before that he's not interested in reverting back to enlisted. Plus we can't afford an E4 pay without going bankrupt.
Promotion is hard to come by these days and let's say he gets E5, we would still suffer financial hardship. That's why I was asking about REDUX...but my hunch is they won't allow him to be selectively continued (3 yr continuation) and take the REDUX (must continue til retirement).
I didn't know that it was in a 3 year increment but there's no guarantee that SELCON will he offered with way increment. He will be at 17 years of service If he gets denied for promotion 3 more times and if he doesn't get SELCON, I wonder if the army will let him go at 17 years with no retirement option. Plus this one aviator was denied promo 5 times and he was only offered a year in selective continuation thereafter. I don't recall reading any regulation that states that SELCON is offered at 3 yr increment.
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- MAJ KevLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
SELCON does not "only offer three more years of service". SELCON offers continued service in three year increments. After the first three years, he will sit another board and his name will go up for another three years.
I would stay in as long as possible, continuing to build hours and years-in-service. He will then become even more competitive if he wants to fly on the outside.
Don't confuse SELCON with promotion boards. Promotion boards come around every year. SELCON boards are held when you have reached the max number of passovers, and they allow one to have selective continuation to serve for a set period of time in the hope you will be promoted or until you reach retirement eligibility, whichever comes first. For most folks, the second passover is at the MAJ / CW3 point, where a three year SELCON will allow them to reach the lock in for retirement. For your husband, with being passed over at CW2 and with prior service, the years might work out, they might not. If selected for SELCON, he will get a letter from HRC, where he will be asked to initial his choice of blocks, the first being: " a. ______ accept this period of a three-year SELCON status. I will not incur an ADSO for the continuation period but will be subject to all existing laws and regulations during the period of continuation. I understand that I will be considered for promotion each time a promotion board convenes considering officers of my grade and competitive category. If I subsequently request resignation or discharge from active duty before reaching retirement eligibility, I understand that I will not be eligible for involuntary separation pay under Title 10, USC 1174."
There are other subsequent paragraphs where he can decline SELCON and be out without separation, or with, or go into the Reserves, etc.
Despite your obvious interest in all this, I STRONGLY recommend that he get his options from his S1 and Branch Manager,a nd discuss this with the senior Warrants he works with and his Battalion Commander. They are the ones he needs to be getting advice from.
Source(s): 23 years Regular Army; 4 years USAR / NG - Anonymous10 years ago
Ask him to revert back to enlisted status to complete the remaining six years inorder to be eligible for retirement!
Don't you think that he won't get promoted when he returns to enlisted status ???
He will then retire and get his retirement pay as a CW2!
