1. If you are a fully qualified EDO (and SWO) with 8+ years of active service you should have no problem making O4. Check the community brief and board precept for O4 reserve line selection results for your designator, though.
2. The Navy direct commissions a handful of reserve ENS EDO annually - often with no prior military service. Many get there with help from this website. They need to get qual’d while learning Navy. If you want, I imagine you could probably spend the rest of your career just teaching unqualified EDO JOs about EDO PQS stuff and the Navy in general. You’ll probably end up with a DH job as an O4.
3. Mobilizations are way down. Non-vol IA mobs are completely gone in FY23. If you don’t care about making O5, you could just homestead where you are locally and ride it out. Note, you probably don’t want to drill at a NOSC if you can avoid it. The NOSC is really just there for your admin and medical. Other than that, the NOSC has no operational mission.
There are other fun things to do in the Navy Reserve. You can do AT at sea. You can go to a unit that routinely supports OCONUS exercises. You can volunteer for ADOS or mob on ZipServe. You can redesignate at O4 to something else and try a whole new career path. It’s really whatever you make of it. Just be sure to check your ASOSH and retirement point calculator. I know a lot of CDRs and CAPTs USNR who are intent on taking back to back to back ADOS as much as they can to collect BAH and max out their points capture, right up until they day they will be forced to retire. If you do the bare minimum for the entirety of a reserve career, be aware your pension check might reflect that.
2. The Navy direct commissions a handful of reserve ENS EDO annually - often with no prior military service. Many get there with help from this website. They need to get qual’d while learning Navy. If you want, I imagine you could probably spend the rest of your career just teaching unqualified EDO JOs about EDO PQS stuff and the Navy in general. You’ll probably end up with a DH job as an O4.
3. Mobilizations are way down. Non-vol IA mobs are completely gone in FY23. If you don’t care about making O5, you could just homestead where you are locally and ride it out. Note, you probably don’t want to drill at a NOSC if you can avoid it. The NOSC is really just there for your admin and medical. Other than that, the NOSC has no operational mission.
There are other fun things to do in the Navy Reserve. You can do AT at sea. You can go to a unit that routinely supports OCONUS exercises. You can volunteer for ADOS or mob on ZipServe. You can redesignate at O4 to something else and try a whole new career path. It’s really whatever you make of it. Just be sure to check your ASOSH and retirement point calculator. I know a lot of CDRs and CAPTs USNR who are intent on taking back to back to back ADOS as much as they can to collect BAH and max out their points capture, right up until they day they will be forced to retire. If you do the bare minimum for the entirety of a reserve career, be aware your pension check might reflect that.