pebd

 PEBD 

six digits

2024 - 1988  = 36

Pay Entry Base Date (PEBD) is the date that denotes how much of your service is creditable towards longevity for pay purposes.

On a day, a very long time ago, I had no idea that six numbers strung together would be such a significant deal in my life. But now as an adult, having lived through decades of changes, wars, victories, grief, and joy. The number means everything. The number brings me closer to freedom and security and at the time close to loss and unknown.

I share this date with my daughter twenty years later she received her own PEBD.