The question is to what extent the AC, plussed up by the FTS community, would be able to handle the care and feeding of reservists in addition to their own AC people.
I still haven't heard where these extra FTS people are coming from. Again, yes, it would be great to plus up support staffs, but that plus up comes at some cost, and that's one no one can really afford right now (see: the shut-downs and billet reductions at CNAFR last year as an example.
So reserve travel being handled by the AC N1/Admin shop. Reserve medical being handled by the AC command's docs.
Having someone on the AC side trained to deal with RC things (travel/NSIPS/orders, medical, etc) is a good idea. But you can't just add more customers to the AC support side (medical, specifically). The AC side is already undermanned at medical and struggles to meet the operational requirements, let alone the admin side.
I'm not sure how an IWO or sub guy gets a physical and/or PHA. I'm curious to know just for my own education, but I'm guessing they go to one of the other places in a BMC that wasn't flight medicine. And that side of medical never seemed to be robust with bodies. If we move the physical/PHA away from the NOSC personnel and move it to where the AC side does business, again, it's a huge influx of patients to have to schedule and deal with, which would require more medical manpower to meet the requirement.
I agree, getting stuff done out in town could be a way to relieve the issue. I have a feeling the Navy would need to really figure out how to do that or they will seriously get burned at some point when someone found a "friendly doc" to get something signed off that shouldn't have been (in the Navy's eyes).
If you've ever shopped FAA medical docs, you'll know what I'm getting at.
This is important because NRCs are graded on "readiness" box-checking which is debatably aligned with the AC's real needs. And the AC gets to get away with not knowing how to take care of these reservists who "just show up." As @Hair Warrior said, why is access to reservists not available with a phone call and a set of orders? Why is mobilizing the force in 30 days a challenge, and are we putting unnecessary gates in our own way because a few people in early GWOT were hiding issues?
I'm not intending to argue your very good points in the quote above. But the RC has never really been concerned about meeting anyone's mission other than it's own RC readiness mission, at least during the 10 years I was on the RC side. The hardware units care, but Big Reserve has historically only been worried about medical readiness and meeting entitlements. Anything more is gravy.
I can tell you the on-coming CNRFC Actual will care about those things, and I'm sure he will want to try and tackle the problem. Lord knows he has the energy for it, but I have a feeling the system will be too big and set in it's way for him to make much progress. Baby steps, I guess.