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Mobilizations, when did you tell your employer?
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HR complaints? Why no IG complaints?
And swiiiinnnggg goes the pendulum, back in the direction from whence it came.
I mean good luck with that... the memo is basically telling the Joint Chiefs and the COCOMs that after twenty years, it's time for them to stop taking shortcuts.
I mean, those IA billets are still going to be filled - by USAFR, USAR, NG, and ANG. And they'll have a great argument for funding if they roger up. As the Navy's memo so directly points out, none of these IA skill sets are necessarily Navy-specific skill sets.
But that's the thing- it's not that the billets exist or that the need for them still exists, it's the fact that they still exist as IA billets.
SELRES_AMDO
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He probably got a few. I only know about the HR ones since I personally know the person who complained.
And aside from EW-related billets and other niche areas where specific Navy fields have expertise, the only reason that they exist as Navy-coded billets at the Joint Staff level is because Big Navy needed to be seen as "relevant" in an era when CENTCOM was the dominant AOR and otherwise, we'd just be going to and from Mom to turn dead dinosaurs into noise over Iraq/Afghanistan/Syria and occasionally chucking Tomahawks at people when the President got a bug up his ass.
Now, INDOPACOM is a naval AOR, there's a peer threat out there, and we need to have SELRES who are legitimately trained in their MOB billets to support that fight. West Coast units especially can't afford to lose Sailors to go hand out basketballs in Djibouti. We as a Navy Reserve need to stop MOBing people to go do random shit, and individual units need to stop treating DWEs as 2-day coffee stops when the active component throws up their hands and says "we got nothin' for you guys." We need to hold their feet to the fire and say "train us, jackass."
Not until April 2022 tho.
SELRES_AMDO
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I've already seen briefs from the senior Officers in my designator stating ADSW will become more valuable. MOBs will be in short supply so they will start favoring ADSW. Board precepts are obviously not the same thing as a prodev brief from an O-6 but I thought it was interesting.
The big issue is ADSW is voluntary. You don't get any dwell time and can be Mob'd while on ADSW. So I wonder how many reservists will voluntarily sign up for it while trying to balance their civ careers.
Sit on a board as an assistant recorder and find out
From my experience sitting on boards, an IA/MOB cannot and will not fix a poor record. Many a Reserve 1835 have found this out the hard way when trying to make O4, some of whom have 2xFOS for O4 and are no longer in the Reserve.
I didn't even know it was possible to FOS for O-4 in the reserves... I though O-6 was the first real barrier (speaking from VT exp, obv it might be different in different communities?)Sit on a board as an assistant recorder and find out