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Mobilization Rules Change

Jim123

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Quote from my first skipper, April 2003: “Looks like this will be a laid-back Med cruise. This Iraq thing’ll be over by the time we deploy.”
If he did his cookie cutter War College JPME+Masters, hopefully he got an F in something. If not then he deserves his grades to be retroactively changed to that (so do a lot of people...).
 

Uncle Fester

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From the quarterly IA Joint Report that came out today:

These rules will limit the time that Reservists can remain mobilized to fill billets throughout the continental United States (CONUS). USFF and CNRFC will evaluate each request and consider (but not limited to) mission criticality and community input, while also considering members’ desires. During a six-month period to transition into these restrictions, existing approved extensions, line transfers, and remobilizations will be honored.
 

bubblehead

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These rules will limit the time that Reservists can remain mobilized to fill billets throughout the continental United States (CONUS). USFF and CNRFC will evaluate each request and consider (but not limited to) mission criticality and community input, while also considering members’ desires. During a six-month period to transition into these restrictions, existing approved extensions, line transfers, and remobilizations will be honored.
I don't get it. Are they getting tired of people using funds meant for overseas bullshit being used for CONUS based bullshit?

Are we saying the Reservists MOB'd at PERS sitting on their asses in the NMCMPS shop are providing any more or less value than the O4 sitting on his or her ass in Bahrain/AFG/Iraq doing PowerPoint?
 

Uncle Fester

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I don't get it. Are they getting tired of people using funds meant for overseas bullshit being used for CONUS based bullshit?

Are we saying the Reservists MOB'd at PERS sitting on their asses in the NMCMPS shop are providing any more or less value than the O4 sitting on his or her ass in Bahrain/AFG/Iraq doing PowerPoint?

No, I think it’s really more because Reservists aren’t supposed to be used for enduring requirements, which are mostly CONUS. The paperwork to Millington/USFF requesting a reserve mob/adsw billet is about half justifying why they can’t use an AC guy instead.

OCONUS billets usually fall under OCO somehow, and they’d rather use a reservist for those than yank some guy off shore duty (see: the bad ol’ IA days). But a lot of CONUS staffs have hit on the idea that it’s a lot easier and quicker to get a reservist into a new billet than get the Millington gears turning to create and man one from the AC side. Especially if they suspect that the demand for said new billets is a political firefly that’ll eventually go away; eg, man every seat in a JOC 24/7/365, or have a Lesser Spotted Owl Action Officer on staff.

Keeping a reservist on AD is expensive, especially if he’s on per diem (even with flat rate), and the days of unlimited free contingency ops money are gone. The Navy’s trying to wean itself off, but I suspect the crash will be hard.

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bubblehead

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No, I think it’s really more because Reservists aren’t supposed to be used for enduring requirements, which are mostly CONUS. The paperwork to Millington/USFF requesting a reserve mob/adsw billet is about half justifying why they can’t use an AC guy instead.
Those Millington NMCMPS shop MOBs have been around since at least 2009. It's a joke.

OCONUS billets usually fall under OCO somehow.
There is very little oversight over OCO.

Net net is that we could nix numerous "MOBs" and I bet there would be little, to no impact.
 

Uncle Fester

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Those Millington NMCMPS shop MOBs have been around since at least 2009. It's a joke.

There is very little oversight over OCO.

Net net is that we could nix numerous "MOBs" and I bet there would be little, to no impact.

You're not entirely wrong; difference is per diem. Per diem is a high-profile great big black hole money suck that with a few exceptions (Bahrain, Germany), aren't a factor for OCONUS mobs. Plus, a lot of the OCONUS mobs are funded by the combatant commanders and don't come out of Navy funding, so Fleet Forces cares a lot less about overseeing them (money-wise, anyway).

I think this might possibly be the start of standing down these endless Reserve call-ups that've been the norm for the last 17 years.
 

bubblehead

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You're not entirely wrong; difference is per diem. Per diem is a high-profile great big black hole money suck that with a few exceptions (Bahrain, Germany), aren't a factor for OCONUS mobs. Plus, a lot of the OCONUS mobs are funded by the combatant commanders and don't come out of Navy funding, so Fleet Forces cares a lot less about overseeing them (money-wise, anyway).

I think this might possibly be the start of standing down these endless Reserve call-ups that've been the norm for the last 17 years.
We can only hope. It's a huge shit show that people have been exploiting over the years in an effort to be seen/viewed as "relevant."
 
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