I am going from 4yrs army reserve to active, how will my retirement work? will I be able to retire in 20yr?

How much time will my reserve count toward my active retirement? and how do I clculate my reserve time compared to active?

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1. yes in 20 ur done, u'll be recieving a check in the mail every month
2. I believe it all counts toward your retirement, but isn't it now 25 years, not 20?
3. They way it works is like this. You will get credit for your basic training, AIT(technical school), your annual trainings and the weekend drills. So we are talking about 36 days per year (annual training = 14 days and 11 weekend drills= 22, total 36) Basic Training was about 63 days and then just add your AIT. It will give you close to a year or so. So, coming back to your question, you would have to serve about 19 years in the active duty and when you add your cumulative reserve time, you will have about 20 years, which is when you can retire. Good luck!!!
4. During your Reserve service you have accrued active duty time ( Basic Training/AIT, drills, and deployments). It is this time that will be applied towards both your Time in Service(TIS) and toward your retirement. For example, if you accrue 2 yrs and 3 mo, then you will have to serve 17 yrs and 7 mo to earn your retirement.
5. Active duty points in the reserves count towards Active Duty retirement while Inactive Points don't. Annual tour days are active duty in addition to active duty for training, active duty for special work and any time mobilized. Drill weekends are inactive time so their points don't count. So if you were in the reserves for 4 years and earned 300 Active Duty points that would equal 1 year of active duty time.
6. You can talk to your Admin SGT from your Reserve unit. They should be able to provide you with an annual statement that will tell you have many points you have accrued and how much credible time in service you have for retirement purposes. You gain points depending on what status your were serving in. Basic, AIT, and AT are all Active Duty Service time. Also, is you did any time ADSW will count. Weekend drill do not count towards active service time. The easy conversion is 1 point earned for 1 day served. More than likely, you have between one year and six months time of service towards Active Duty Service Credit towards retirement. Plan on doing close to a full 20 years if you are going to join the active component.