Welcome, Blue Water members.
Mike asked us to say hello and point you to some useful starting places. We’re Scott and Jen Tucker, and we run US VetWealth. By the time you’re working with Blue Water, the career side of the transition is in good hands. We focus on the financial side: SBP, TSP rollovers, and post-military life insurance. Three decisions that tend to come up at the same time. The ones most retirement briefings leave half-answered.
Different specialties. Same mission.
Mike Wallace launched Blue Water Advisors in early 2021 to fix what he saw as a quality gap in transition assistance for career senior military leaders. He came across our work on LinkedIn, specifically the book and guides walking through how to make the Survivor Benefit Plan decision using probability, statistics, and the math behind it. It was the framework he wished he’d had during his own SBP decision. And he saw immediately what it could do for his Blue Water members, for whom the SBP decision is just one more distraction during their career progression. He reached out, and we’ve been working together since.
For Blue Water members, that partnership is practical. Different specialties, same audience, same standard for how the work gets done.
Your next role.
Mike’s team handles the part of the transition that shapes what your post-military life actually looks like: finding the right civilian role, best-fit over best-pitch.
The financial decisions around it.
SBP, TSP rollovers, post-military life insurance, and how the pieces fit together once your second-career income lands on top of your pension and VA disability.
Years of working alongside Mike and the Blue Water community have sharpened how we think about your specific situation. Career senior leaders aren’t undersaved. Between the pension, the TSP, and the benefits, you’ve already done the hard part. With second-career income layered on top and a working runway of roughly another decade ahead, what’s usually missing isn’t more accumulation. It’s the clarity to look three years out and see what you’re actually working with: the dangers worth eliminating before they become problems, the opportunities the standard playbook leaves on the table, and the strengths you’ve already built that should be doing more for you than they are. That’s the work US VetWealth was built for. It’s exactly where the War Chest Strategy is designed to apply.
US VetWealth stands out as a current, relevant, and credible resource. It offers a unique alternative to ETAP’s broad advice, specializing in personalized financial strategies for SBP and TSP. Their approach ensures military retirees receive tailored guidance, aligning their retirement plans with individual financial objectives for a secure and well-planned future.
Mike Wallace CAPT (Ret.) · U.S. Navy
The podcast we co-host with Mike.
Honest conversations on the financial, transition, and life decisions career military leaders are actually facing, without the retirement-briefing gloss. Episodes, articles, and a working archive for the audience we both serve.
Visit Military Retirement Blueprint →
More than a referral.
A few moments with the Blue Water community over the past few years, on the water and at the rink.
Two ways to start.
The War Chest Library
Rank-specific guides on the SBP decision, TSP rollovers, and the War Chest Strategy. No opt-in. Bring your spouse in. Most of these decisions are joint.
Explore the Library →Book a Strategy Call
Thirty minutes. Your situation, your numbers, no pitch. We walk through what your actual options look like before any paperwork gets signed.
Book a Strategy Call →More resources specifically for Blue Water members are on the way. In the meantime, the Library and the Strategy Call are the two doors. Pick the one that fits where you are. Scott & Jen