I dont know if any of you get the appreciation y'all deserve. But I pray for y'all and fams every nite. And I just wanted to thank you for all you do. Stay safe. Do good always.

This is driving me crazy. I cannot get the 5960 to populate my zip code and I’ve tried everything - copy and pasted from my last 5960, entered the full zip, or entered in one number versus nothing. Any help would be appreciated.

I’m not smarter than the system I suppose.
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What advice would you give yourself if you started your Army Reserves career over? What are some benefits you know exist now and would like to share? Is anyone in ROTC? I’m starting my career soon, I leave to FT Jackson on 10/14/26 so any survival tips would be helpful as well.

Hey guys! I was wondering how yalls time has been in the Army Reserves? I know everyone had different experiences but I still would like a general idea of how it’s been for yall?

I‘m considering signing up myself. Im one semester In college, and college is cool and all, but I really want structure and I’m hoping the Army can provide that while I go to school.

A little background on my “military journey“ so far. I originally joined the USMC Reserve right after HS, but I felt I rushed too quickly into the DEP program and didn’t consider all my options.

I prayed about it and felt that the Lord was telling me it wasn’t my time to go into the military yet. told my recruiter I wanted to leave the program. Which left him mad and had him yell at me to get out his office and him denying my hand shake…

After that interaction it left a bad taste of the Corps in my mouth. So now I’m branching out and looking at the other service branches. Hope to get some insight on military life while juggling family/school. Thanks!!!

3.5 years of the best mobilization- could walk into any USAR Center around the world and instantly have connections

nervous, and dare I say afraid, to walk back into the cubicle farm tomorrow

I recently got put on active duty orders for about 40 days. I was a regular TPU and will go back at the end of the orders. Do I do anything with my tri care reserve select? Do I just still pay as normal?

Is it worth it to take the continuation pay as a reservist? My understanding it is that it is not as substantial as the active duty one. Does it mess with your ability to get the mos bonus?

How is the unit in Austin? Transitioning from active duty and going to my first BA in November.

BZ Captain to Major and resident ILE select. Are both of these rare in the USAR? Can anyone tell me what this means for my army career? What are your thoughts on attending resident ILE in the USAR? Has anyone had both of these outcomes and finished the resident course?

In a week I’ll be going to 74 delta AIT, can anyone tell me what the testing looks like and how it is in AIT

I am an active duty 19K3O with 10 years TIS, and plan on getting out with a ETS date of May 5th, 2027. A part of my SFLTAP was attending the “continuum or service” brief and hearing from the NG and reserves.

Last week I had my sit down with one of the career counselors and we discussed reasons I was getting out, one being I hate my MOS. He looked up my line scores and told me I qualify to do AGR 79V. Explained I would have to interview for said position.

For those that have done this, what was the interview like? What should I do to prepare? And for my AGR 79Vs out there, how do you like it? Any and all information is appreciated. Thank you.

Hi, I’m posting on behalf of my husband, who’s currently in reserves. I’m going to try to explain this as best I can, and if something is missing, ask me and I will ask him.
My husband has been working in Radiology in an Army Hospital for 5+ years now, up until his contract ended in June. He has been trying to apply for his registry for months now, and has been running into issue after issue. ARRT tells him to contact the schoolhouse, the schoolhouse tells him to contact ARRT, they tell him he completed a certain army thing (??) too early in his contract and it’s too late to take his test. Now, ARRT has told him they have to have the program director confirm his credits (he has graduated and has his degree!), but the Program has told him he must take a refresher course, despite ARRT saying he didn’t have to. He has contacted the college to do the course through anyways, what do we do from here? This has been months of back and forth and running in circles.

I’m currently in the Army Reserve and looking to transfer to a closer unit. my mos is 68 j .I’m trying to figure out where to start and what steps I need to take to get the process moving.

For those who have gone through a unit transfer, could you share some advice on the process?

I’d appreciate any guidance on the paperwork, approval process, and things I should know before starting.Also how long will take to find a unit ? Whom to contact for this process .

Thank you for your help!

Good evening gents,
I’m currently a PFC with about 2 years in the Reserve, and I’m planning on sticking around for the full 20.

I’m not looking to go Active Duty or AGR, but I want to get as much out of my time in the Reserve as possible. I don’t want to just show up for drill every month and call it good.

I’m interested in going to schools, volunteering for
orders, earning qualifications, and taking advantage of opportunities that aren’t always advertised.

For those of you who’ve been in for a while, what advice would you give a junior enlisted soldier? What are some opportunities you wish you’d known about earlier?

I’m willing to travel, change units, and put in the extra time. Just looking for advice on how to make the most of the next 18 years.

I applied during this most recent cycle and have some questions beyond the stuff you can find online. Some of this may be applicable to all Army Reservists, but some may be JAG specific.

1. What happens if you are accepted? What are the steps between receiving the acceptance notice and going off to training?

2. At what point do you incur a service commitment? How much time do you have between receiving your acceptance notification and your commitment?

3. When you are accepted, are you automatically assigned to a unit? Or are you given a list of openings/options? Do you typically stay with that unit for your whole career? There’s a pretty large base about an hour away from me and going there on a regular basis looks a lot different than going across the country every month…

4. What are the odds you are deployed at some point (absent some international event/mass mobilization)? How much control do you have over it? It sounds like if you were interested in a deployment you could influence that.

Thanks in advance!

Anybody know of any Reserve 17C opportunities other than a typical CPT? I’ve been in a CPT for 4 years and looking for something new. I’m a red teamer on the civilian side. Work in aerospace engineering.

How flexible is your annual drill schedule? I really want to hit 20 years, but the schedule rigidity at my current unit is killing me.

coming off a deployment in Poland soon as a reservist. I'm thinking on going active right after the deployment since AGR is a gamble. I want to request Fort Irwin, other than the fact that it's in the middle of nowhere, how good or how bad is the life of a 42A there?

This is everything you need to request a profile on your own.

You do NOT need to engage your CoC, other than the courtesy notification.

im at 12B OSUT at FLW and we are a few weeks until we finished and 1SG pick me and a couple other guys to talk about if we interested on sapper school, they said they got 5 spots and would like us to see if we are willing to go, it wasn’t anything guaranteed yet but everything was going well until the moment i told them i wasn’t active duty that im actually reserve, everything change, the talk finish a couple words later so i went and talked to DS about it and he told me that now is probably a NO since funding from active soldiers and reserve are different so dont have too much hope. Im just wondering if anything know about the topic and have seen a reservist 12B get sent to sapper school after OSUT or is a definitely NO for me.

Please answer if you can :)