USMA

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USMA 95Individual Ready Reserve

• What to expect when you get a Western Union
  telegram from US Army Reserve Personnel Command.
• How to prepare yourself for mobilization.
• What to take with you to the mobilization site.

• Great stories from IRR officers
• To Resign or Not to Resign
• How to resign your IRR commission
• Recall Links
• Class POC

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How will the soldier know that he or she has been
called to active duty?

• The IRR soldier will receive an order from HRC
  St. Louis (formerly AR-PERSCOM) in the form of a
  Western Union Mailgram.

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How do IRR soldiers get to their mobilization
sites?

• The order to active duty will include travel
  authority and information.
• Carlson Wagonlit can help.
• Ft. Belvoir Carlson Wagonlit office
• Duty Hours 0730-1630
• Phone Numbers
• 703-799-5680
• 866-480-0659
• After Hours Assistance
• 1-800-383-6732  
• When Overseas, Call Collect
• 1-210-805-3728

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How does an IRR soldier seek an exemption or
delay?

• Soldiers who receive mobilization orders are
  expected to comply with the order. IRR/IMA
  soldiers who think they may have grounds for
  delay or exemption must apply in writing to the
  HRC St. Louis Delay and Exemption (DE) Board
  Team explaining the reason(s) for application and
  providing the necessary information and
  documentary evidence. Soldiers may call the DE
  team at 1-800-325-4361 for additional guidance on
  preparing a delay or exemption packet. Packets
  forwarded to HRC St. Louis will go before the
  Delay and Exemption Board for a recommendation
  and the HRC St. Louis Commander will make the
  final determination. Soldiers may appeal
  unfavorable board outcomes to the Department of
  the Army G1. The HRC St. Louis DE Board Team
  will provide instructions for this process as
  well.

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What happens if the soldier fails to comply with
the order?

• Soldiers who fail to comply with the reporting
  data on the order to active duty will be listed
  as Absent Without Leave (AWOL), and will
  subsequently be listed as deserters if they fail
  to report within 30 days. In either event, their
  names will be reported to military and civilian
  law enforcement officials and they will be
  subject to apprehension and criminal prosecution.

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To Resign or Not to Resign

• Send in your IRR resignations and receive orders
• If you haven't sent in an update to Reserve
  PERSCOM since you got off of active duty and your
  address has changed they dont know where you
  are.
• If Reserve PERSCOM can't find you they cant send
  you orders or they get orders returned to sender.
• IRR orders are normally sent to the home of
  record identified on your DD-214.
• Sometimes it is safer to find a Reserve unit and
  transfer from the IRR
• If you do not want to deploy and are concerned
  about getting recalled from the IRR find a unit
  that has recently returned and transfer into it.
• If you want to deploy, but not as an individual
  augmentee, find a Reserve unit that is preparing
  for deployment and transfer into it - most are
  on a five year cycle.
• It is easier to get out of the Active Reserve
  following a 1 or 2 year mobilization than it is
  to get out of the IRR.
• Many Reserve MOS are in a stop loss . If your MOS
  is in astop loss you cannot resign. Additional
  information is available through Reserve PERSCOM.

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Resign from the IRR

• Read the Fine Print Your commitment is not
  complete until you pass the 8 year mark.
• After the 8 year mark, just when you thought you
  were free - NOTHING HAPPENED to your record to
  indicate your time in service was complete.
• You must resign from the IRR.
• In order to resign you must submit a resignation
  letter to RESERVE PERSCOM
• Sample format
• There is a link on the Reserve PERSCOM page that
  tells you how to get out - you need an Army
  Knowledge Online (AKO) account to get there
• AKO website - www.us.army.mil

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Recall Links
https//www.hrc.army.mil/site/reserve/soldierservi
ces/mobilization/irr-mob-info.htm
https//www.hrc.army.mil/site/reserve/soldierser
vices/mobilization http//www.defenselink.mil/ra
/html/mobilization.html.
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Point of Contact

• Carolyn Davis, B-4 95
• carolyn.davis1_at_us.army.mil