The bottom line here is that if you are already selected to the next rank, and just waiting for your line number to come up, you should retire at the rank you are selected for even if that number doesn't come up before your retirement date; the truth is that it's not really going to matter for pay purposes because they compute your retirement pay using the high 3 method... in other words, one month of retirement pay is only going to be calculated in 1 of those 36 months (3 years) of your high 3. Ita
Italianguy4,
The only way you are going to get the next rank is if you return to duty from TDRL, then they conider the time you would have served if you weren't retired. I'm in the same boat here, but I should have selected for E-7 before I got retired, but when I got injured my RS retired so my fitrep didn't get completed and they didn't even look at my package. I applied to the BCNR when I finally got my paperwork done several months after my retirement, but they agreed to do a remedial if, and only if, I returned to duty from the TDRL... which I am in the process of doing. So I assume my promotion will get back dated to right before I retired. Sorry for rambling on, but you no, you will not be promoted unless you were selected before retirement!