DD214-1

[taxi1]

When a reservist hits (gray area) retirement, do they receive a regular DD-214 and a DD-214-1? Or just the -1?

I got nothing back in 2015. Paperwork with my total points, yes, but for collecting early I used the DD214s from my mob/deployments.

 

[sevenhelmet]

When a reservist hits (gray area) retirement, do they receive a regular DD-214 and a DD-214-1? Or just the -1?

I got my retirement approval letter and an ARPR in the mail that shows 20 years of service. The only -214 I have is from my AD career, when I separated and went to SELRES in 2020. I did not get an updated one from my reserve unit when I retired.

 

[snake020]

When a reservist hits (gray area) retirement, do they receive a regular DD-214 and a DD-214-1? Or just the -1?

It's a regular DD-214 and then an additional page which is the DD-214-1 which has reserve specific items like your points breakdown, retirement age reduction from activations, and list of activations and statutory authorities.

 

[MIDNJAC]

I think, ultimately, we're asking way too much of this system when people separate. I've signed up for military benefits at Home Depot and purchased a military priced Epic ski pass - all online without having to show so much as a military or retired ID. The fact that we're still relying, in some cases, on a 70 year old system based on a piece of paper to cover proof of service, awards, etc, is a little ridiculous.

I dont disagree with you about the basic -214 everyone gets, like the one you got when you retired. The 214-1 is supposed to take the place of the statement of service us SELRES used to receive for our reservist time. It’s literally ASOSH and NROWS. Those two systems have just about everything a civilian would need to make this document correct. So I’d submit it isn’t too much to ask. Especially since it directly affects your retirement pay in 10-15 years down the road, as well as when you start receiving said pay, and can probably only be corrected well before that. It’s fundamentally a different document than you active duty retirees got. Also, whenever you go to the reserves, you enter the world of nobody knowing how to classify you, or how to understand any of your paperwork or statuses or pay. The savviest people basically just think “1 weekend a month, 2 weeks a year”. This is probably just an extension of my personal aggravation with an NRC/NOSC that entirely doesn’t understand that there are people in the navy reserves who actually do something, and say, rate flight pay continuously without producing a gate letter (and you shouldn’t just randomly turn it off because you dont understand we dont have them, and actually cant get them generated either). I digress….