The woes of trying to retire.

I’ll try and keep this concise. I submitted my retirement in Feb, HRC denied it 26 days after submission. I fix the problem, resubmit and 35 days after submission, I have crickets. When requesting an update, HRC ghosted me, my S1, and the G1. I finally get someone from retirement services on the phone and I get a very well rehearsed response:

“Sir, we have 1600 pending actions and we are only a two person team. We are currently not processing retirement requests with dates beyond Apr 24. We are getting to them as fast as we can.”

Quick to deny, slow to approve. Only TWO people processing all the AC enlisted retirements?!! That is ludicrous.

What’s the point of opening retirement requests to 24 months? When they can’t process within 10 months? Is anyone else having similar experiences or am I just cursed?

I’ll take the green weenie footlong with banana peppers please.