{"id":268670,"date":"2023-05-10T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T07:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268670"},"modified":"2023-05-11T06:09:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:09:19","slug":"navy-suddenly-tells-retiring-troops-they-owe-3-more-years-of-service-amid-recruiting-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268670","title":{"rendered":"Navy suddenly tells retiring troops they owe 3 more years of service amid recruiting troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

USNS Comfort<\/p>\n

Kyle Kleeman \u2013 American Military News May 9, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

At least 65 military doctors and dentists in the Navy Reserves were told on Friday that they still had to undertake at least three more years of service, a shocking development caused by administrative record-keeping errors in their retirement credits, officials claimed as the U.S. military continues to face a historic\u00a0decline\u00a0in\u00a0military\u00a0recruits.<\/p>\n

According to <\/a>NBC News, multiple officers voiced their displeasure with the order, including one dentist who said, \u201cThey\u2019re trying anyway possible to retain us, even if it is trying to strong-hand us.\u201d<\/p>\n

To retire from the military with included benefits, members must serve a minimum of 20 years of qualifying service. Previously, physicians and dentists who\u00a0successfully completed the\u00a0Armed Forces Health Professionals Scholarship Program were credited with\u00a0up to four years in retirement credits if they then followed up and joined the\u00a0Selected Reserve \u2014 the military\u2019s main\u00a0reservists force \u2014 after completing\u00a0their active-duty service requirements.<\/p>\n

According to a 2002 Army memorandum, the Army, Navy and Air Force were using\u00a0that credit as an incentive in an attempt to retain employees in the healthcare field,\u00a0considered to be a \u201ccritical wartime shortage specialty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting last year, Navy Reserve members started to see their credit from participation in the program vanish off their official record. The Air Force and Army have confirmed that they do still include participation in the program as credit towards military retirement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m trapped,\u201d a doctor said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s terrible. It\u2019s unfair. It\u2019s dishonorable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In January 2022, one doctor\u2019s\u00a0record showed that he had completed\u00a019 years of qualifying service. Six months later, it showed a decrease\u00a0to 16 years.<\/p>\n

Cmdr. Rick Chernitzer, a Navy Personnel Command spokesperson, stated to NBC News that\u00a0a \u201cdata migration issue\u201d within the Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System \u201cprematurely\u201d credited\u00a0four years of service credit to officers\u2019 official records.<\/p>\n

The clerical error previously permitted\u00a095 people to retire with full benefits before being\u00a0eligible, Chernitzer\u00a0<\/strong>commented. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Navy has said that the affected workers will still retain credit for their service during those years but only after they reach the required 20 years of qualifying service to officially retire. The military healthcare workers have voiced their complaints about the fact that this defeats the whole purpose of the promised recruitment incentive.<\/p>\n

One of the dentists voiced his dissatisfaction and said he would not have accepted the offer in the first place had he known.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe four years was offered as a recruiting incentive, and to blame a migration error is a bold-faced lie,\u201d the dentist said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Army missed its 2022 recruiting goal by 15,000 troops, marking a 25 percent miss from the 60,000 new soldiers it sought to recruit before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30. It\u2019s the worst miss on record for the service since the U.S. military became an all-volunteer force nearly 50 years ago.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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