They lived off of Glen's income and directed all of her salary to their savings, which grew and grew in a diversified portfolio thanks to the magic of compound interest. They made a plan leaning on the same procedure used to conduct any military operation - plan, prepare, execute, assess. Begin with the End in Mindīradley said that the first step toward financial independence is the same as the first step in conducting a military operation: visualize your end goal and work backwards. So how did she buck the norm and turn a fairly normal military career into a chance to live her dreams? Here's her advice.
"He understood my commitment to the Army and brought an even bigger idea to our relationship: retire early and sail around the world."īut plenty of people stay in the military for 20 years without living a civilian life of leisure and adventure after retirement. "At 30, I married Glen, a former Army officer who got out after Vietnam to work as a government civilian engineer," Bradley said. In her last three years of her career, she distinguished herself when she was given a joint assignment as a Nuclear Weapons Inspector with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in Russia. She also did a tour as a company commander of a training company at Fort Huachuca, Arizona and Brigade S2 in the 2nd Infantry Division. She then spent the rest of her 20-year career on a "seesaw between civilian-clothes assignments" using her Russian language skills, she said. She applied to officer candidates school and was accepted. So she came up with a new plan: stay in the Army in a different career field, then retire after 20 years and live off her military pension and the interest from her savings nest egg.
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