The service members who are reinstated will be restored to their prior rank, and will be provided back pay and benefits, according to the fact sheet.
That's the best possible outcome. I doubt any of these guys would want to come back in any form, minus a few younger guys who might be super gungho about Trump or getting deployed to fuck up some Latino countries (as it seems might happen), so giving them their rank, prestige and years worth of backpay is the highest possible compromise.
Its also a great note about Trump himself. He was the one who authorized Warpspeed, and always seemed to be pretty pro-vaccine (likely because he authorized it and tied it to his ego). So his willingness to correct mistakes regarding the force with which it was mandated both during and after his administration is a good show that he might be willing to put his ego down when it was clearly in the wrong or misused.
I doubt any of these guys would want to come back in any form,
I doubt any are interested in a career, but depending on if they only have to finish what remained of their prior enlistment or whether they need to start a whole new term, it might be worth going back for many of them.
They're due four years of back pay, who wouldn't serve a year or two to get that? Then you don't reenlist, and go back to your civilian job- which the USERRA laws say has to take you back with the same seniority as if you never left.
There's also those that might have only been a few years away from retirement. If you have 16 years in, it's worth doing four more to get the pension.
I’m sort of hoping that those that close to retirement could send Trump and his staff a letter asking if they could just get the pension early without going back. I’d suspect he’d give it to them.
I am interested in knowing how many take the offer to return. When the mandate was ruled illegal in court, out of 8000 plus roughly 40 something took reinstatement. The rest said, "Nah, bro, we good."
That's the best possible outcome. I doubt any of these guys would want to come back in any form, minus a few younger guys who might be super gungho about Trump or getting deployed to fuck up some Latino countries (as it seems might happen), so giving them their rank, prestige and years worth of backpay is the highest possible compromise.
Its also a great note about Trump himself. He was the one who authorized Warpspeed, and always seemed to be pretty pro-vaccine (likely because he authorized it and tied it to his ego). So his willingness to correct mistakes regarding the force with which it was mandated both during and after his administration is a good show that he might be willing to put his ego down when it was clearly in the wrong or misused.
I doubt any are interested in a career, but depending on if they only have to finish what remained of their prior enlistment or whether they need to start a whole new term, it might be worth going back for many of them.
They're due four years of back pay, who wouldn't serve a year or two to get that? Then you don't reenlist, and go back to your civilian job- which the USERRA laws say has to take you back with the same seniority as if you never left.
There's also those that might have only been a few years away from retirement. If you have 16 years in, it's worth doing four more to get the pension.
I’m sort of hoping that those that close to retirement could send Trump and his staff a letter asking if they could just get the pension early without going back. I’d suspect he’d give it to them.
I am interested in knowing how many take the offer to return. When the mandate was ruled illegal in court, out of 8000 plus roughly 40 something took reinstatement. The rest said, "Nah, bro, we good."
It’s theater, until every officer who pushed this shit is gone those returning will have a target on their back.
Best start telling the brass that band together can be heard together as well. Basically, make them target for the DOGE.