What did you service select?
You gotta add a bit more info.
Is this IRR -- like 'Individual Ready Reserve' ... ??? Or something else that I'm totally missing ... ???I got the call this morning, the Navy is exercising the option to put guys on IRR. I'll be on of for about 4 months. So prepare for that guys.
Is this IRR -- like 'Individual Ready Reserve' ... ??? Or something else that I'm totally missing ... ???
If IRR -- it's a GOOD deal as you're NOT going to Flight School, anyway. Muster requirements are usually minimal and if you make the effort -- you can get some jobs/assignments that will be worth the time spent on them. It's better than sitting in PCOLA for 4+ months over the winter, sniffing your fingers, looking at the wall of your Ensign-apartment, and trying to decide whether or not to go to K-Mart today or tomorrow ...
Hell, we showed up in PCOLA and immediately went into a 300 man pool. We just mustered once/twice a week, PT'd occasionally, and sniffed our fingers. I usually went to K-Mart on Thursday.
You can make it what you want it to be ... in the ol' days, guys headed for PCOLA used to do a couple of years on battleships or cruisers prior to getting orders to Flight School.
I get it: it's hard. Life is not 'fair'.These days IRR means no paycheck. Not a great situation for all those MIDN who opted for that USAA pre-commissioning loan and now owe $$$ upon commissioning. ....
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