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Deployment Issues

What do I need to know about Deployment?

Guard and

Reserve Family Readiness Program Toolkit is an

important asset now available to families of service members being called to

active Duty or Deploying. The item is available as a printed product and on the Internet at www.defenselink.mil/ra/family/toolkit.  The toolkit is a standardized

pre-deployment and mobilization handbook. 

It is an attempt to standardize information between services and the

reserve component, so they can all use the same language when talking about

deployment preparations.  A list of

helpful information can be found at https://www.defenselink.mil/ra/familyreadiness.html.

With the tool kit is another helpful

website, the “Guard and Reserve Family Readiness Schedule of Events” at

www.defenselink.mil/ra/calendar.  The calendar lists

family readiness training sites for the services. 

Finally the site also has a

“Guide to Reserve Family Member Benefits.” 

The booklet explains available military benefits, including medical and

dental benefits, commissary and exchange privileges, military pay and allowances

and re-employment rights. 

Important

Documents

All National

Guard families should review the documents in the file below periodically.

Special attention and preparation should be taken prior to any temporary Active

Duty or deployment to include Inactive Duty Training (IDT), Annual Training (AT)

and State Active Duty (SAD). 

PLEASE SIT DOWN WITH YOUR HUSBAND/WIFE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER OR OTHER

IMPORTANT FAMILY MEMBERS AND GATHER THIS INFORMATION AND THESE DOCUMENTS. THE

HOUR YOU SPEND GOING OVER THIS WILL SAVE YOU TIME LATER

ON.

Family Readiness

Checklist

All National Guard families should answer these

questions periodically. Special attention and preparation should be taken prior

to any temporary Active Duty or deployment to include Inactive Duty Training

(IDT), Annual Training (AT) and State Active Duty (SAD).  A convenient checklist can be printed by

opening the link below.

THE MOBILIZATION

SPECTRUM

Mobilization is the process of preparing for war or other

emergencies by assembling and organizing personnel and materiel for active

military forces, activating or federalizing the Reserve Component, extending

terms of service, surging or expanding the industrial base, and bringing the US

Armed Forces to a state of readiness for war or other national emergency.  Involuntary activation of the Reserve

Component includes the following categories of force

activation:

Selective

mobilization is

the mobilization, by the Congress or the President, of Reserve Component units,

Individual Ready Reservists (IRR), and the resources needed for their support to

meet the requirements of a domestic emergency (Postal strike, flood, earthquake,

etc.) that does not involve a threat to the national

security.

Presidential

Selective Reserve Call-Up (PSRC),

the so-called “200K Call-up” is used to augment

the active force of all services with up to 200,000 service members of the

Selected Reserve for up to 270 days, for an operational mission including

Weapons of Mass Destruction (MWD) within the United

States.

Partial

mobilization

involves the mobilization by the President or Congress of not more than

1,000,000 Ready Reservists (units and individual reservists), for not longer

than 24 months, along with the resources needed for their support, to meet the

requirements of war or other national emergency involving an external threat to

the national security.

Full

mobilization is the

mobilization by the Congress of all Reserve Component units in the existing

force structure, all individual, standby, and retired reservists; retired

military personnel, and the resources needed for their support for the duration

of a declared emergency, plus six months, to meet the requirements of a war or

other national emergency involving an external threat to the national

security.

Total

mobilization is the

expansion of the Armed Forces by the Congress and the President to organize or

generate additional units or personnel beyond the existing force structure, and

the resources needed for their support, to meet the total requirements of a war

or other national emergency involving an external threat to the national

security.

Reserve personnel are responsible for keeping their units

informed of current home and work addresses and telephone numbers.  Normally, when there is an alert,

Reserve personnel will be notified by telephone and given instructions.  If the news media report the

mobilization of Reserve units, service members who have not been personally

notified should contact their units as soon as possible.

Some units will be mobilized and enter Active Duty a day or

two after being alerted.  Other

units may be alerted but not begin Active Duty for several

weeks.

OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE RESERVE

COMPONENT

The Ready

Reserve

The Ready Reserve includes

Reservists in the: Selected Reserve (SelRes) Guard/Reserve Units, Individual

Mobilization Augmentees (IMAs), Active Guard/Reserve Personnel Individual Ready

Reserve (IRR), and Inactive National Guard (ING). “The Ready Reserve consists of units or

individuals, or both, liable for active duty under the provisions of 10 USC

12301 and 12302. The Ready Reserve is comprised of the Selected Reserve and the

Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) / Inactive National Guard (ING).” –10 USC 10142

The Selected Reserve

(SelRes)

The Selected Reserve is comprised of

Reserve/Guard Units. Unit members are Guard/Reserve personnel assigned to Reserve organizations that

perform in drill periods and annual training as a minimum.

Individual

Mobilization Augmentees (IMAs)

Individual Mobilization Augmentees are Reserve personnel

assigned to Active component organizations who perform in drill periods and

annual training. IMAs are specially

qualified members of the Selected Reserve assigned to critical wartime positions

in the Department of Defense or other agencies. The IMA service member trains a minimum

of 12 consecutive days each year in his or her assigned position. As members of the Selected Reserve, IMAs

are subject to the Presidential 200,000 call-up authority. Assignment orders to IMA positions

include mobilization instructions. IMAs are mobilized when contracted by the agency or unit, or notified

through the national news media.

Active

Guard/Reserve (AGR)

Active Guard/Reserve (AGR) are Reserve personnel on

full-time active duty or full-time National Guard duty who provide support to

the Reserve Components. All Members

of the Selected Reserve are in an active status. –10 USC 10143

Individual Ready Reserve

(IRR)

The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), a manpower pool in the

Ready Reserve, primarily consists of individuals who have had training, have

served previously in the Active component or the Selected Reserve, and have some

period of a military obligation remaining. IRR members are in an active status, but do not perform regularly

scheduled training. Service members with a remaining military service obligation who transfer to the IRR

from Active Duty or from the Reserve Components, or who volunteer to continue

membership in the IRR after completing a military service obligation, can be

mobilized during a national emergency declared by the President or

Congress. At any time, the IRR can

be activated involuntarily for up to 15 days a year. ITT members receive mobilization orders

through the Western Union Mailgram System.

Inactive National Guard

(ING)

Inactive National Guard (ING) consists of National Guard

personnel attached to a specific National Guard unit in an inactive status. ING members do not perform training, but

will be ordered to Active Duty with the unit to which they are assigned in

accordance with AR 614-1 and accompany their unit to the Mobilization

Station.

Standby Reserve

The Standby Reserve is Reserve personnel who maintain their

military affiliation without being in the Ready Reserve (10 USC 10151). They are subject to involuntary active

duty under full mobilization (10 USC 12301a) Status Lists in the Standby

Reserve. Active Status List: Reservists assigned to Standby Reserve for

temporary hardship or other cogent reasons, or who have been identified as “key

employees” in their civilian position. The Inactive Status List is Reservists who are not required to remain in

an active program and who maintain their Reserve affiliation in a

non-participating status.

Retired Reserve

The Retired Reserve is all Reserve officers and enlisted

personnel who are otherwise eligible for retired pay but are not yet age 60,

have not elected discharge, and are not voluntary members of the Ready or

Standby Reserve. Retired Reservists

may be ordered to active duty whenever required as determined by the Secretary

of the Military Department (10 USC 688).

Full-Time Support

There

are four categories of Full-Time Support: Active Guard/Reserve (AGRs), Military

Technicians (MilTechs), Civil Service (CS), and Active Component (AC).

Military Technician

Military Technicians are full-time civilian employee of the

Army and Air Force National Guard and Reserve Required. They are a drilling member of the

Selected Reserve as a condition of civilian employment. Loss of military position equals loss of

civilian position. Serves in three

ways: performs full time military work in a civilian status in his/her unit,

performs military training and duty with his/her unit, and mobilizes with

his/her military unit.

Reserve Mobilization

Authorities

 PRC

PARTIAL MOBILIZATION

FULL MOBILIZATION

AUTHORITY

10 USC

12304
(Presidential)

10 USC 12302
(Presidential)

10 USC 12301(a)
(Congressional)

NUMBER SUBJECT TO INVOLUNTARY CALL-UP

200,000
(Includes 30K IRR)

1,000,000

UNLIMITED

RESERVE CATEGORIES SUBJECT TO CALL-UP

READY

RESERVE
(Units, IMAs, AGRs, Special Category IRR)

READY RESERVE
(Units, IMAs, AGRs, + IRR/ING)

TOTAL RESERVE 
(Units, IMAs, AGRs, IRR/ING, +

Retirees, Standby Reserve)

LENGTH OF TIME OF CALL-UP

270 DAYS

24 MONTHS

DURATION OF WAR/EMERGENCY PLUS 6 MONTHS

Note: Service Secretaries may involuntarily call up Retirees at any

time under the provision of 10 USC

688.