The date you enter active duty is the beginning date (Basic Active Service Date or BASD) then 365 consecutive calendar days, 366 in any leap year until 20 is reached. :o) This I know from too many years in the military and retired military ex-spouse.
>>>Most people born on February 29th celebrate their birthday on February 28th (don't they?)
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>>That's OK, but we're trying to determine, how old they will be on March 1st the following year. If they be 1 year and 1 day old, it means that the people born on Feb. 28 should be 1 year and 2 days old. Now, it means that they were 1 year old on 28th and are now 1 year and 2 days on 1st.
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>>This doesn't make sense, so we may assume that both categories will be 1 year and 1 day. But now where is 1 day difference? The 28th born became suddenly one day younger.
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>>Do you see a paradox and a problem here?
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>I honestly don't think there is a resolution to this that is truly satisfactory because there is no standard to define how it works, so everything gets left up to interpretation. I wonder how the government does it when they calculate retirement age for people born on the 28th and 29th of February. Of course, if I know the government, in 2009 when a person born on Feb 29th, 1944 shows up, they'll tell him, "Sorry, call back in 2204".
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