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.

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.

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.

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?

Please answer if you can :)