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 RETIRED NAVY AND MARINE CORPS - BECOMING “UNRETIRED:” RECALL TO ACTIVE DUTY

You can be recalled to active duty anytime the service wants you. For this reason, military officials often refer to military retirement/retainer pay as “reduced pay for reduced services.”

Department of Defense (DOD) Directive 1352.1 places retirees into one of three categories, with Category I the most likely to be recalled during times of war, national emergency, or “needs of the service”:

• Category I: Nondisabled military retirees under age 60 who have been retired less than five years.

• Category II: Nondisabled military retirees under age 60 who have been retired five years or more.

• Category III: Military retirees, age 60 or older, and those retired for disability.

Military retired members of any age can be recalled to active duty to face court-martial charges. However, that this does not happen very often. In most cases, the military allows the civilian justice system to process military retirees who engage in misconduct.

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Many of the retired Marines I know would be glad to go back on active duty if the country needed us. Although if the country needs us at our advanced age we and our country are in deep doo doo.

Semper Fi

https://va.org/understanding-retainer-vs-retired/