In 1977 when Botswana Defence Force was established through an act of parliament, the act stipulated that soldiers could not retire beyond the age of fifty-five years of age. The first group of officers and men that helped in the formation of BDF were coming from Botswana Police where they were members of what was known as Para Military Unit (PMU).
As these men were sacrificing off five years from their possible career at Botswana Police, they needed special protection beyond to retirement. The people that opted to form BDF had a special dispensation regarding the calculation of their pension in that they were using a divisor of 600 basis points as compared to the 720 basis points for what was applicable to the rest of the civil service.
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