Please explain years of service

USNA1985
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:29:17 +0000

Agree w/Great American. You don’t get credit for your USNA years, ever, in terms of retirement, etc.

Someone may be confusing USNA with USUHS (the military medical school). It’s my understanding that you will get credit for the 4 years of med school, but ONLY if you stick around for another 20 (i.e., retire). At retirement, the 4 yrs (from USUHS) are added to your total for pay purposes. Thus, if you attended USUHS (for 4 yrs), then worked as a Navy doctor for 22 years after med school, and then retired, you would get credit for 26 years for retirement pay purposes. At least that’s my understanding. [However, if you attend USUHS and only work as a Navy doctor for 16 years, you don’t get to count the 4 from USUHS and retire at 20.] However, I also believe this only works for USUHS and not civilian medical schools or other military schools.