Q. I am a FERS employee who started with the post office in 1989. If I buy back my military time, which started in 1979 and continued through 1988, is this time counted as FERS or am I a FERS employee with a CSRS component.
A That time would be credited under FERS. For your active-duty military service to be credited under CSRS, you would need to have completed a minimum of five years of actual CSRS service before Jan. 1, 1987.
