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DEPLOYMENT

What do I need to know about

Deployment?

The 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

The documents in the file below should be

reviewed periodically by all National Guard families. 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

These questions should be answered periodically by all National

Guard families. 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.

OPERATION R.E.A.D.Y (Resources for Educating About

Deployment and You)

curriculum is a series of training modules published for the

Army as a resource for Army Community Service staff in training Army families

who are faced with deployments. 

Pages 33 through 46 should be of particular interest to Army Reserve and

Army National Guard families.

The Army Leaders’ Desk Reference for Soldier/Family

Readiness

is designed for commanders and leaders to give them a handle on family

readiness.  In a clear and

forthright manner, it presents the key elements in a unit’s family readiness

responsibilities.

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.