What regulation covers information stating that you can retire from active duty (w/ retirement pay) and join the National Guard?

CW3 Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 10:53:37 -0500

Response by MAJ Jim Steven made Jan 8 at 2017 11:20 AM

MAJ Jim Steven — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 11:20:42 -0500

I always assumed that if I retired from active, but then joined Guard/Reserve that i would be cut off from retirement pay until around 65...in fact, that is why I am not in the Guard/Reserve
will be interested to read the responses...

Response by SFC A.M. Drake made Jan 9 at 2017 8:33 PM

SFC A.M. Drake — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:33:07 -0500

Sir,

If you retire from any Active Duty branch you are prohibited from rejoining the AR or NG you are coded as 4R on DD-214....with that being said the Army has an Retiree Recall for certain shortage jobs. I can get the exact regs for you tomorrow! Right now it's National Championship time!

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 18 at 2017 2:11 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:11:46 -0400

Once you retire you can not join guard or reserves, your RE Code on your DD214 is coded so you can't and there is no waver authorized as far as I know haven been a National Guard recruiter at one time unless changed

Response by LTC Mark Overberg made Jan 2 at 2018 9:56 PM

LTC Mark Overberg — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:56:14 -0500

There are limited situations where you can retire from active duty and then continue to serve in the Reserve Components. An example of why a member would do that is because he/she still wants to serve and can or to qualify for increased retired pay. An O-5 could receive a regular (active federal service) retirement, transfer to the Guard to accept a promotion to O-6, then qualify for a nonregular (RC) retirement and at age 60 (or less if he/she served qualifying time after 2008 in the RC) start collecting nonregular retirement pay as an O-6.