Needing a bit of insight and advice

[Fortis]

Hello everyone!

This is my first post on here and I'm quite eager to get some feedback from some of my SNCO's.

I came into the Navy under the National Call to Service program. Those of you familiar with it know that we serve an obligation of 15 months after our initial training, and then transfer into the reserves (or sign an extension for 24 months). I transferred into the reserves and left 2ndMARDIV and am now with 4thMARDIV.

So, anyone familiar with the NCS program, and I correct in thinking that the contract itself said I would have a 24 month obligation to the Navy Active Reserves, after that I could either go into the IRR, return to active duty, or stay in the active reserves for another 24 months, and then after that have the same options to transfer back into one of the other two or stay in the one I currently am in.

Does that sound about right?

Well if so, how hard do you think it would be for me to leave the active reserves and return back to 2ndMARDIV?

I'm currently an E4, 3.5 years in service, and on my second deployment as I write this. It's not that I don't like the reserves, I just felt like I was happier on active duty, and I'd like to be billeted as a senior line corpsman and share a little motivation with my junior corpsman and have the opportunity to really train and help make quality corpsman.

Any help or advice is much appreciated.

HM3 Reeves

[8404]

Click this thread to read a February 2008 release about changes to this program ===> National Call to Service, NCS Reserve Program 2008 Changes

Additional info regarding NCS enlistment contracts can be found by clicking this thread ===> Reserve to Active???

[Fortis]

Appreciate it Chief, but neither one of those links applies to me from what I could tell. I looked up the NCS contract on va.gov and it does in fact say that after your 24 months of Selective Reserve (after the 15 months active) the remainder of your contract may be spent on active duty, selres, or IRR.

So I suppose I need to just go and speak to my detailer since it's in my contract that I may return to active duty?

HM3

Originally Posted by 8404

Click this thread to read a February 2008 release about changes to this program ===> National Call to Service, NCS Reserve Program 2008 Changes

Additional info regarding NCS enlistment contracts can be found by clicking this thread ===> Reserve to Active???

[8404]

Originally Posted by Fortis

...from what I could tell...

Exactly...

Originally Posted by Fortis

Appreciate it Chief...

I'm not a Chief, look closely at the title ... I'm just a Mo Fo.

Semper Fi HM3

Keep us posted on what your 'detailer' has to say ...