Also, if you are in a job that directly supports an active-duty unit, your drills may not fall into the "one weekend a month" category. Positions in these units drill whenever they are able, sometimes even during the week. This can be a benefit if your civilian job has irregular hours. These are full-time federal civilian employees who are also reservists. They are also known as "dual-status" and perform the administrative and training duties for the reserve units they serve.
What makes them different from AGR personnel is that they do not qualify for active-duty military pensions. They receive federal employee and retirement benefits and qualify for reserve military pensions.
Though this area may not seem pertinent to you as you enter the Reserve or Guard, we will throw it in anyway as something to aim for while you are in the "front leaning rest" position at boot camp. After all, it's never too early to start planning your retirement. Following a career in active or reserve duty, individuals are placed in what is known as the Retired Reserve while they continue to collect their military pensions and benefits.
Also in this area are "gray area reservists," who are reservists who are eligible for retired pay but have not reached their 60th birthday, to enable them to begin collecting their military pension. To reach the status of Retired Reserve, you must be an active-duty enlisted retiree of the Army or Air Force with more than 20, but less than 30, years of combined active and inactive service.
Once you hit 30 years, you are fully retired. If you are a retired enlisted member of the Navy or Marine Corps with 20, but not 30, years in, you are moved into what is called the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Reserve. So after you've had an exciting and fulfilling career in the service of your country and have reached the year mark, in addition to having an endless supply of stories to impress your family and friends, you will be assigned to one of three categories in the Retired Reserve.
These categories depend on your age, physical fitness and date of retirement from service. If you are not yet 60 years old or disabled, you will be placed in Categories 1 or 2. Which category you are assigned to will depend on your physical condition and how critical your skill is. Here you still are considered eligible to be mobilized in the event of a national emergency or war.
If you are a disabled veteran or over 60 years old, you are still not free from being called back to the colors. However in Category 3, your case is evaluated on an individual basis. The Standby Reserve are reservists or members of the Guard who maintain their military affiliation but are not members of the Ready Reserve. Normally these reservists are key federal employees, such as senators, congressmen and senior agency officials.
They also can be civilians in the defense industry whose employers designate them as crucial to national security. This status allows them to maintain their rank and standing in the reserves while serving the government in other ways.
These reservists voluntarily can participate in training for retirement but receive no pay. They are eligible for promotion, with the exception of promotion to the flag or general officer level.
These reservists are not authorized to participate in training for retirement points and cannot be promoted. Those who elect to be transferred to this status because of hardship or health reasons are allowed to maintain their military status, because they have skills the Reserve might need in the future.
It takes an act of Congress to get the Standby Reserve recalled to active duty, and then only when there are not enough Ready Reservists to do the job. It consists of 10 short individual tests covering word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, arithmetic reasoning, mathematics knowledge, general science, auto and shop information, mechanical comprehension, electronics information, numerical operations and coding speed.
When you take the ASVAB before enlisting, not only do you receive scores on each of these individual tests, but several individual test results are combined to yield three academic composite scores: verbal, math and academic ability. Only U. Applicants must speak, write and read English fluently. The U. Regulations prohibit the forwarding of recruiting information through international mail, even to U. Use our online form to reach a recruiter electronically.
Basic training, or boot camp, lasts from weeks, depending on the branch. After you have finished boot camp, you will be sent to advanced individual training, or AIT, where you will receive in-depth training in your military occupational specialty MOS or rating.
The Reserve or National Guard seeks commissioned officers through several different sources. You must 18 or older maximum age requirements vary from service to service , be of good moral character and meet academic, physical, medical and security requirements.
This on-the-job training was designed to relieve a shortage of junior officers in the Army National Guard. An SMP cadet performs the duties of a second lieutenant under the supervision of a commissioned officer. The requirements for this program are that you must be 30 years of age or younger, attend college full time usually about 12 semester hours at most colleges and be in good physical shape.
If you have a four-year college degree from an accredited college and meet all age, physical and moral requirements, you may apply for OCS. Upon completion of your officer package, you will have an interview with a board of your superior officers.
The completed package will be submitted to a second board, which will select the top candidates from the packages they receive. As a professional lawyer, doctor, dentist, nurse or health-care professional, you also may qualify for a direct commission into the Reserve or National Guard.
Enlisted members may compete for OCS slots if they have four years of service, obtained the rank of E-5 or above and have at least 30 college credits. The role you play within the military will enable you to launch and continue a successful career once your days of serving end. As an active-duty service member, you will be required to forgo starting your civilian occupational career for a period of at least two years.
The benefits of choosing to enlist as active duty include being immersed in your chosen occupational specialty and gaining the insight and experience that comes with full-time work in your field.
As a reservist, you will receive significant training for your chosen vocation but will have to transfer that training immediately into a civilian career pursuit without the benefit of on-the-job training. As a reservist, you will have the chance to practice your trade one weekend per month and two weeks per year. The benefit of choosing reserve status is the ability to further your education and begin working as a civilian right away.
Though it might not be the most important part of your decision, the compensation you will receive after enlistment is an aspect that has stark differences, depending on whether you choose to serve as an active-duty member or reservist.
Active-duty service members are often granted basic choice in where they will be stationed after recruit training and military occupational specialty school - called Advanced Individual Training AIT for Army soldiers.
Active-duty enlistees can be stationed anywhere within the United States or abroad, depending on the duties and mission of their respective unit. Reserve status members will be stationed near their home and only be subject to international station in the event they are called for active duty.
Leave and liberty are forms of "vacation" for active-duty members. Leave is accrued at a rate of 2. Active-duty members coordinate their leave with their units, and such leave is subject to the approval of the unit's commanding staff. Liberty is any period of time when active-duty members are technically "off from work," such as weekends and holidays where you are absolved from duty unless otherwise instructed.
Liberty is commonly available for 24, 48, 72 or 96 hours and comes with restrictions related to the distance members are allowed to travel and corresponding to the length of liberty granted. The longer the liberty, the farther members can venture away from their duty stations. Reserve members are not subject to normal leave and liberty conditions, as they are only obligated for two days per month and one Field Training Exercise FTX per year.
In the event that reservists are called into active-duty service, their leave and liberty will mirror the requirements and conditions of those normally serving active duty. Active-duty members receive full medical and dental benefits as well as unlimited post exchange and commissary access.
Active-duty members may be stationed within the United States or abroad. They can retire with full benefits after 20 years of service. In our spiritual ways, we always talk about living a good life. I think she's done a really good job living that good life.
Amayah : So my major is biochemistry, even though it sounds really specific you can do a lot of things with it. I feel like I would have purpose helping people whether it's on the admin side of healthcare or like actually being a provider, that's what I'm interested in. The whole purpose of being a soldier is to serve your country. Everything you're doing is for your community and for your country so I think they tie hand in hand with helping people.
Members of the Reserve and National Guard share how military service has enriched their personal and professional lives. And it allows me to have a full-time profession on the outside. Senior Airman Jessica Eastburn : I decided to do reserves so I can still pursue my degree, as well as do the Military at the same time.
You get to have your civilian job and hobbies, and friends and family, and then you get to have your Army family and friends, and your Service. So you get the opportunity to take a break from your civilian job or civilian schooling, and go serve.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Adrien Cheval: To pilot a very nice Coast Guard boat, to do search and rescue and maritime law enforcement, the fact that I get to be a federal law enforcement officer certainly complements my civilian job. Whatever it is, it definitely comes out as a civilian as it does in Military.
Every U. In addition to training drills one weekend a month and two full weeks per year, National Guard units assist communities in their state during emergencies like storms, floods, fires and other natural disasters. During times of conflict, the president can federalize the National Guard, and its service members can be deployed overseas. National Guard members deployed overseas may see combat, but are also assigned noncombat humanitarian tasks, such as building schools and hospitals, training local peacekeepers and other community-building projects.
High school students and college and vocational students in the case of the Coast Guard may train for two summers and serve one weekend a month during the school year. They receive pay for their weekend service and, after training is complete, begin Reserve duty.
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