TTN, the AFL has gone to that great hole in the skies called JPA.
The input to the AFL now depends on JPA issuing a pay cheque every month. You retire, no pay cheque, and you disappear.
When I got my first degree I told the CS at Strike and my entry on the RAFR list was duly amended. Whenurhappy, when I paid for my MRIN that too went in. There was a small hiatus when I was made an AFRIN as that had not been on the approved list. The list was amended and that too went on.
By the time I got my third degree, as I was paid by the Civil Service and not through JPA I ceased to exist. I spoke with the SO2 at Air who said they were trying to see if CS RAFR could be 'captured' but didn't think it was worth the effort. The retired list was dead easy to ignore.