Do any of you remember the particulars about getting an additional 10% after 20 years for Good Conduct?

I beleive it was 12 continous years of good conduct.

I believe you had to retire with good conduct (clean record) to get it
Stupid me I never checked to see if I was getting it in my retirement I had 4.0 conduct (never got caught)

Back in The Day (early 70s) I reached the mark of 12 years with Good Conduct. At that point I was entitled to wear gold hash marks. I retired with 20 years 9 months and 2 days and automatically received 62.5 %.

Chief Franklin, I think we were on the Escanaba in New Bedford at the same time.

I hope every thing is great for you.

Yeah Chief we were both on the the Escanoba I think we made the Cadet Cruise in 69

When I retired in 79 I had a neighbor who was a retired Navy Corpsman (E-7)who was absolutely livid about me getting an extra 10% after 20 years. If there was anyone he could write to he sent off letters complaining about him not getting it.

Can't remember what the from/to dates you had to enlist to be elibible to receive it.

A Chief Navy Corpsman lives two doors down from me that never had any sea duty in 20 years of service.

When I completed YN"A" back in February of 1971, we did learn about that particular benefit. It's been 37 years, but I think the requirement was that you needed to have a 3.9 average in conduct for the length of your career. This program was terminated sometime during the mid 1960's, I think.

If it was terminated in the 60s,then I suspect that those who joined before the termination date would still get it.

The story I was told was that during world war II, the CG was operating as part of the Navy. As an incentive to people to re-enlist during the war, congress passed the extra 10 percent deal for good conduct over a 20 year career for all members of the department of defense (including the CG operating as part of the Navy). If memory serves me, "good conduct" didn't need to be 4.0 over 20 years, but more like 3.95 - so a little bit of misbehaving was acceptable. Anyhow, at the end of World War II, the CG reverted to the Treasury Department. Shortly thereafter, congress eliminated the extra 10 percent for the Department of Defense. They didn't catch up with the Coast Guard until September or October of 1963 (I joined in January 63, so was eligible for the extra 10 percent). Any ENLISTED Coastie that served 20 years, who enlisted prior to Sep or Oct 1963 received the extra 10 percent as long as their conduct marks averaged 3.95 (you really had to mess up bad if your conduct marks averaged below 3.95). Actually, I was number 1 on the E-8 list and number 1 on the CWO list at the same time - the extra 10 percent (if I remained enlisted) was the determining factor in my declining warrant. I knew I'd make E-9 at 20 and be able to retire at 22 ------ back then, 65 percent of E9 pay was better than 55 percent of W2 or W3 pay.