If you are going to do the reserve bum thing, you need to be really damn good when you show up to work. One spotty review/fitrep and you will find yourself totally on the street. /QUOTE]
+1 pony
Excellent point. Being active duty is like being in a union. Marginal performers are carried for years. If you are a Reserve Bum, especially in a small community, you have to rely on your reputation to get that next job. Everyone knows how you performed on your last job and, unlike most active duty billets, they don't have to take you. Many of the good deals are by name requests. So your name better not be associated with poor performance
Ah, ok that would make things more interesting. I am looking at the Reserves as a way into the Navy in case I don't get picked up for this coming board. I would like to go in as INTEL or SWO if possible then try and go active somehow. That is the objective. The main reason is to try and get around the age limits (34 for for Active and 42 for Reserve.My story.
Joined the Reserves enlisted. Have no prior active duty experience. After 5 years decided I want to be and Officer and go active. Exactly what your asking correct?
I contacted an ACTIVE DUTY recruiter and started the process. The key is there are recruiters for active duty and reserves. They are not one in the same. I applied and have been accepted for Intel. Right now I am still contracted with the Navy with my original Reserve contract. When applying you have to sign a 'conditional release' form. This allows them to end my reserve contract in order to enter into the new active duty contract.
It is harder I have been told if you are not a Medical or Specialty type Officer it is MUCH harder to go in as an officer.
Hope that helps a little.
Short of getting transfered to the active rolls, you can just be a Reserve Bum and keep taking voluntary recalls and temporary active duty one right after the other.
I spent the good part of a year trying to get a "junior" (an E-3 Sonar Technician Seaman in his mid-30s with extensive Public Relations experience in the media industry) sailor into OCS. His CCC deliberately slowed up and dragged ass on the application until sailor's 35-year birthday had passed, then sent it off . . . knowing full well that they'll reject him for his age.
They did.
His CCC deliberately slowed up and dragged ass on the application until sailor's 35-year birthday had passed, then sent it off . . . knowing full well that they'll reject him for his age.
Oh wow, this is my nightmare and is currently happening to me at the moment. There's a lot that's going on behind the scenes but if anyone is in the know or has experience in these matters, I would like to see what my recourse is.I spent the good part of a year trying to get a "junior" (an E-3 Sonar Technician Seaman in his mid-30s with extensive Public Relations experience in the media industry) sailor into OCS. His CCC deliberately slowed up and dragged ass on the application until sailor's 35-year birthday had passed, then sent it off . . . knowing full well that they'll reject him for his age.
They did.
I would tread lightly if you are considering this course of action: you are essentially "riding orders."
The problem with doing this is that for every set of orders, you are going to receive one-off FITREPs wherein you are not compared against your peer group, which is vital to advancing (e.g., "The TOP LCDR in the division.").
Never was a problem for the guys I saw do it. One reason might be the so called "running mate" for selres. You can be in the inactive reserve and get promoted for sitting at home with a beard and long hair. I never was a personnel type though.