{"id":2058,"date":"2011-11-01T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:08:03","slug":"officially-retired-from-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/11\/officially-retired-from-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Officially Retired from the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --><br \/>\n<g:plusone annotation=\"inline\"><\/g:plusone><\/p>\n<p><!-- Place this render call where appropriate --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  (function() {\n    var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text\/javascript'; po.async = true;\n    po.src = 'https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js';\n    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);\n  })();\n<\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/US-Army-retired-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2059\" title=\"US Army retired-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/US-Army-retired-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/US-Army-retired-logo.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/US-Army-retired-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>As of 010001NOV2011 or midnight on November 1st for the civilians out there, I am officially retired from the United States Army after a combined total of <strong>8273 days<\/strong> or <strong>22 years, 7 months and 24 days<\/strong> I am kind of a civilian again. I don&#8217;t have to cut my hair and I can grow a beard if my lets me. It came faster than I thought it would but I am proud to have served and glad to be on civvy street again at the same time. \u00a0 Now I just have to go out and find a real job, great economy for that huh? \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 010001NOV2011 or midnight on November 1st for the civilians out there, I am officially retired from the United States Army after a combined total of 8273 days or 22 years, 7 months and 24 days I am kind&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/11\/officially-retired-from-the-military\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1219,199,1226],"tags":[391,392,390,142,111],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dispatches-administration","category-military-culture","category-non-historical-asides","tag-military-retirement","tag-pension","tag-retirement","tag-us-army","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21190,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/21190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}