Being former Army myself, the situation plays out somewhat differently if an officer is RA, versus Army Reserve or National Guard. When I was in, there were even differences in Army Reserve status (i.e. IRR or Individual Ready Reserve, which was an awful lot like the National Guard, only you didn’t even muster out once a month but were on this weird “standby” status. IRR was definitely a product of the Cold War, in that IRR members would probably only get called up if a big war broke out with the Russkies).
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Pat: Yup. I would imagine so, especially for the Army where the third brigade in every infantry and armor division is generally USAR or National Guard and combat ops “friction” would start wearing down not only equipment, but personnel, too, and you’d have to reach into the Individual Mobilization Augmentation program (which was really designed to “plump” up Army divisions). I don’t imagine the Army ever thought they’d be subjected to this sort of wear and tear (and it’s not only the duration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the theater conditions as well).
