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50-point year — one page
- A qualifying year is your anniversary year (AYE), not 1 January. 49 points is a lost year.
- Ready Reserve membership is 15 automatic. A standard drill weekend is 4.
- RST a dying weekend before it dies. Correspondence courses will not save a short year.
- Army Reserve: IPPS-A. Guard: state RPAM. Audit the official inquiry, not a spreadsheet.
- Twenty qualifying years is the gate for a non-regular retirement.
Official door: IPPS-A
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