ARMY RESERVE VETERAN BENEFITS: JOB EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT
STRENGTH FOR NOW — AND THE FUTURE
The Army Reserve can help you find great jobs both during and after your term of enlistment. Retired Army Reserve Soldiers have access to employment programs and benefits that can help you get ahead in life.
US Army Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) Program
The U.S. Army Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) is designed to help Soldiers prepare for a career after the Army. Soldiers participating in PaYS will be guaranteed a job interview with their pre-selected PaYS partner. The PaYS program links your Army Reserve Military Occupational Specialty to a participating civilian employer. Ask your recruiter for participating civilian companies in your area.
EMPLOYER PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
Serve in the Army Reserve and and advance your civilian career at the same time. Through this program, you’ll gain access to thousands of civilian employers who are Army Reserve friendly and value the skills, capabilities and leadership your bring to the workplace. To learn more, check out the Employer Partnership web site.
Army Reserve Retirement Pay
If you complete 20 years or more of qualifying service, you’re eligible for retirement pay at age 60. The amount of retirement pay you earn is tied to your Unit Training Pay and increases with the number of years served. While you collect retirement pay, the amount you earn increases periodically through cost-of-living adjustments.
Retirement Savings Plan
As a Soldier in the Army Reserve, you are eligible to participate in a retirement savings and investment plan. The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is sponsored by the federal government and offers similar savings and tax benefits many corporations offer.
The Thrift Savings Plan is an optional program that lets you contribute up to 100 percent of your basic pay each pay period (up to the limits established by the Internal Revenue Code). Your contributions are either tax-deferred or tax-exempt, which means that the money you contribute is taken out of your pay before federal and state income taxes are withheld, something that regular savings accounts cannot offer.
- The Reserve Experience - Roles and responsibilities
THE RESERVE EXPERIENCE
Roles and responsibilities
My name is Sergeant Brian Vander Werf; my MOS is 68 Whiskey, I'm from Tempe, Arizona. I'm a medic in the Army Reserve and I work as a student researcher at the Bio-Design Institute at Arizona State University.
In the larger sense we're trying to look for new ways to diagnose Breast Cancer. We have discovered small proteins or peptides that bind these sugar structures and as it turns out when cells become cancerous these change and the Army has certainly taught us that you need to pay close attention to the smallest details and you absolutely need that if your working in the scientific field.
My name is Mark Trent Pombo; I'm a Petroleum Supply Specialist. As a result I learned a whole lot about fuel. When I'm not in the Army Reserve I'm an accountant and also a racecar driver.
At the accounting firm I'm with I joined the motor fuels team. Half of my learning curve was gone when I got there because I know what fuel goes in what kind of vehicles and what kind of engines.
It just made my life a lot easier when I got to work. One of my co-workers who started around the same time as me, we were just sitting there talking about some of the fuel we saw on an invoice and it said mogas (motor gasoline) on there and he'd been looking at it for 2-hours and he came right over to me and I told him immediately it that same thing it's an 89 octane its basically like buying your premium.
So there's some little things I'm able to bring to work that probably nobody else wasn't in the Army Reserve would be able to do.
My name is Allison Courtemache; my MOS is 25 Lima and I'm a Cable Systems Operator Maintainer. Some of the things I'm responsible for is setting up fiber optic lines as well as Cat5 and that can include Internet as well as phone lines. It can be intimidating at times because you see so many wires and you don't know where they all go to, what server, what room, you don't know whether it's a live or not.
The skills that I've acquired in the Army Reserve definitely do play a big role in my civilian life. I have more motivation to finish school to get the career that I want and the job that I want and not only get that job but succeed within that job.
Being a medic in the Army Reserve has absolutely been a stepping-stone it comes off in every job interview that I have. People want to know the patients that I've seen, what responsibilities I had. I don't think I could have been as successful if it wasn't for the Army Reserve.
Without the Army Reserve I definitely wouldn't have the accounting job right now. The guy that was interviewing me told me right when I walked in that your Army experience and that fact that you were deployed going to get you this position.
It's your future, stay strong in the Army Reserve. Visit GoArmy.com/reserve.
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