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Military retirement in the United States is a system of benefits designed to improve the quality and retention of personnel recruited to and retained within the United States military. These benefits are technically not a veterans pension , but a retainer payment, as retired service members are eligible to be reactivated.
On July 1, 1960, control of the Military Personnel Records Center was transferred to the General Services Administration. The three active-duty military records centers at MPRC—the Air Force Records Center, the Naval Records Management Center, and the Army Records Center—were consolidated into a single civil service-operated records center.
HRC is a direct reporting unit (DRU) supervised by the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel (DCS), G-1, focused on improving the career management potential of Army Soldiers. [1] [2] From basic training through retirement, Regular Army and United States Army Reserve Soldiers have one agency to assist in career management.
The DD Form 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, generally referred to as a "DD 214", is a document of the United States Department of Defense, issued upon a military service member's retirement, separation, or discharge from active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States (i.e., U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Coast ...
Davis, George B. BG, U.S. Army JAG, "A Treatise on Military Law of the United States," New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1908; Opinions of the judge advocate general of the army: April 1, 1917, to December 31, 1917, Volume 1 By United States Army Judge Advocate General's Dept. United States. Judge-Advocate General's Dept. (Army), United States. Army.
Stop-loss was created by the United States Congress after the Vietnam War. Its use is founded on Title 10, United States Code, Section 12305(a) which states in part: "... the President may suspend any provision of law relating to promotion, retirement, or separation applicable to any member of the armed forces who the President determines is essential to the national security of the United ...
The OPA also ended the practice of appointing Army officers into specific "branches [broken anchor]", giving the Army greater authority to move personnel to different functions and change organizational designs. OPA also authorized the services to grant voluntary retirement at 20 years of commissioned service. [5]
The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) serves under the Office of the Secretary of Defense to collate personnel, manpower, training, financial, and other data for the Department of Defense. This data catalogues the history of personnel in the military and their family for purposes of healthcare, retirement funding and other administrative needs.