Transcript Enlisted/Officer Separations and Retirements

Enlisted/Officer
Separations and
Retirements
General Information
Retirements
and
Fleet Reserve
Requests
 Enlisted Fleet Reserve/Retirement requests
may be submitted no earlier than 24
months prior to requested date and
normally no later than 6 months.
 Officer requests for retirement may be
submitted no earlier than 12 months and no
later than 6 months.
 Enlisted requests are made by special
request chit through your chain of
command. Your Command Career
Counselor will attach an OPINS worksheet
to the request chit and forward it to PSD
for electronic submission.
 Officer requests are made by letter IAW
MILPERSMAN article 1810-020 and may
also be submitted electronically. Officers
may bring a copy of letter request and
command endorsement to PSD to be
submitted.
Separations
Officer
and
Enlisted
Separations
 Officer resignations are prepared via
command admin offices and mailed to
BUPERS.
 Enlisted separations must make an
appointment with PSD no later than six
months prior to separation date to begin
processing.
 If you are authorized early separation, you
must provide PSD with a copy of your
approval. MILPERSMAN article 1910102/104 refers.
Separation Orders
 Officer orders arrive via message traffic
and are endorsed by PSD.
 Enlisted orders are prepared by PSD
locally
HHG SHIPMENT
 ORDERS ARE REQUIRED FOR
SHIPMENT OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.
 PERSONAL PROPERTY HANDLES ALL
HHG ENTITLEMENTS
Physical
 A medical/dental physical is required for
all personnel Separating, Transferring to
Fleet Reserve or Retiring. You will receive
a memo from medical indicating a
completed physical.
IMPORTANT
 YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO
DEPART ON TERMINAL LEAVE
UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETED
YOUR SEPARATION/RETIREMENT
PHYSICAL, SO PLAN AHEAD.
Medical and Dental Records
 All separating/retiring personnel must turn
in their active duty dental record to PSD
prior to departing on PTDY or terminal
leave.
 Active duty medical and dental records are
mailed to the National Personnel Records
Center in St Louis MO upon your
separation/retirement date.
 You should make a copy of your medical
and Dental records prior to turning them
into PSD, we are unable to allow you to
make copies at PSD.
 You can request a copy of your active duty
medical record after separation/retirement
by mailing a written request to:
Department of Veterans Affairs
Service Medical Records Center
PO Box 5020
St Louis MO 63115
IMPORTANT
 YOU WILL NOT BE ISSUED A DD214
WITHOUT FIRST TURNING IN
YOUR MEDICAL AND DENTAL
RECORDS.
Family Member Medical Records
 Family member medical records will be
maintained at Naval Medical Clinic Washington
Navy Yard for a period of two years for
separation personnel and indefinitely for retiring
personnel staying in the local area.
 Retiring personnel who are leaving the local area
can request their family member medical records
be transferred to the new servicing MTF.
 POC for Medical Records:
Terminal/Separation Leave
 Leave is taken after completion of
separation processing and ends at 2359 on
your last day of active duty. If you are
requesting leave, you must give PSD an
authorized/approved leave paper with no
Leave Authorization Number assigned.
IMPORTANT
 Make sure your leave balance is correct
prior to submission of leave paper. You
will be charged for excess leave taken.
 You can sell a maximum of 60 days in
your Naval career. Leave is
automatically sold back at
separation/retirement if not used.
 You continue to accrue leave while you
are on separation leave.
Permissive TDY (PTDY)
 Pre-separation job/househunting, which
may be authorized by your CO for the
purpose of easing the transition from
military to civilian life. See your
command’s admin office for procedures.
Provide PSD with a copy of your no-cost
TAD orders.
 PTDY may be taken at any time after
receipt of authorization to retire and is
normally taken in conjunction with
terminal leave.
IMPORTANT
 PTDY is only authorized for involuntary
separating personnel with Transition
Benefits, Transfers to Fleet Reserve and
Retirement.
 IAW NAVADMIN 109/92, the
combination of both terminal leave and
PTDY may not exceed 100 days.
Certificate of Release or
Discharge from Active Duty.
(DD 214)
 Officers are required to provide PSD with
their service record information including
schools and all awards noted on page 13’s.
 DD 214 is prepared from information
contained in your service record. You will
need to ensure that your record is correct
prior to separation processing.
IMPORTANT
 DD 214 will not be issued until your
separation/retirement date. And only
after PSD has received your medical and
dental records, separation evaluation (if
applicable), and ID card(s) (separations
only).
Evaluation
 Only separating personnel are required to
have an evaluation. The ending date will
be the date of separation (EAOS).
 Evaluations must be turned into PSD prior
to commencement of PTDY and or
Terminal leave.
 An EVAL/FITREP is not required for
Retirement or Transfer to Fleet Reserve.
ID Cards
 Any ID card issuing facility will issue a
reserve/retired card with a copy of your
DD 214.
 Retirees may obtain a retired card early by
taking a copy of your retirement/fleet
reserve orders to PSD Washington’s ID
card lab for issuance.
IMPORTANT
 Enlisted/Officer separations are
required to mail back their ID and
family members ID cards (if outside
local area) before DD 214 will be
forwarded.
Certificates
 Fleet Reserve, Retirement and Discharge
certificates are prepared by your command.
See your command admin or career
counselor for details.
The following documents are required prior
to departure on PTDY, Terminal Leave or
EAOS.
 Separation/Retirement Questionnaire
 Approved early out authorization
 Completed physical memo
 Medical and Dental Records
 Carit brief or TAP Page 13
 Evaluation (Enlisted separation only)
 Security Termination Statement
(OPNAV 5511)
 Pre-Separation Counseling Checklist
 No Cost TAD orders (if authorized PTDY)
 Approved leave paper with no LAN
assigned
 Data for payment of retired personnel
(DD 2656) (45 days prior to retirement)
Home of Selection
 Home of Selection is an election
authorized for Fleet Reserve, Retirees and
involuntarily separated personnel entitled
to Transition Assistance Benefits.
 A member authorized Home of Selection
May select a home:
 Anywhere in the United States,
or…
 Their Home of Record (if outside
the United States), or…
 The Place from which the
member was initially called or
ordered to active duty (if outside
of the United States).
 You have up to one year to make election
and must be done in writing.
 You must make a home of selection prior
to drawing an advance, or shipping
household goods.
Travel
 Separating personnel are reimbursed for
travel from your current duty station to a
place not to exceed either home of record
or place of acceptance to active duty.
 Retirees, Fleet Reservist and involuntarily
separated personnel entitled to Transition
Assistance benefits are entitled to travel
from current duty station to home of
selection.
 USNR personnel released from active duty
and transferred to Naval Reserve are
entitled to travel days for return to their
home of record/place of acceptance.
 Honorable separations that do not complete
90 percent of their initial enlistment and
OTH separations are only entitled to lowest
cost transportation in kind.
 Advance payment for travel is authorized
upon request. Retiree’s must elect home of
selection in order to be paid in advance.
 Separations receive 80 percent of travel
advanced. The remaining 20 percent is
paid upon receipt of a travel claim.
 Retirees receive 100 percent of travel.
 No DLA is payable at time of separation or
retirement.
POV mileage entitlement (Per POV)
 Member/Driver only ------------- $0.15
 2 authorized travelers ------------ $0.17
 3 authorized travelers ------------ $0.19
 4 or more travelers --------------- $0.20
Final Pay
 Active duty pay stops on the payday prior
to separation. Final pay will go into your
DDS EFT account approximately 3 days
after separation date. This EFT will
include your clothing allowance, lump sum
leave, etc…
 Retainer pay will start on the first day of the
month following your separation.
Example
Enlisted - Retires 31 December. First retainer
payment will be made on 1 February.
Officer – Retires 1 January. First retainer
payment will be made on 1 February.
All allotment can be carried over to retired pay,
except charity and VEAP. To start or stop an
allotment to affect your retired pay, it must be
done no later than one month prior to retirement.
Bonds in safekeeping must be requested one
month prior to separation/retirement. All request
must be made in writing.
Tri-Care Dental will be deducted from you last
month of active duty pay for retired personnel.
This is because it is deducted in advance. You will
be mailed a refund check for your last month’s
deduction directly from Tri-Care. You must ensure
you update your address in DEERS because this is
the address they will use.
Please don’t wait until the last
minute to notify PSD of your
intentions.
Plan ahead.
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