I have a very interesting situation:

There is a slight possibility of a mob (IA) coming up soon. Is it possible to be mobilized if your enlistment would be up halfway through the mob?

RUMINT says there might be a mob coming up at the start of the year; my enlistment ends this summer.

The issue I'm having is this: I'm currently working abroad (and drilling abroad); if I was to get mobilized I would lose my current position and my wife would be moved out and dumped back in the US. I would obviously prefer this not to happen.

I'm just worried that I could get mobilized, regardless of when my enlistment is up. Does anyone have any experience with this on the Navy Reserve side of things?

Thanks.

Best place to get an answer is your servicing PSD.

As of when I was last mobilized (2003) you had to have enough time on your current enlistment to take you through the mobilization. If not, when you were mobilized you either had to sign an extension or reenlist. If you declined to do either one, you were demobilized, returned to your unit, and discharged at the end of your contract with a recommendation that you not be allowed to reaffiliate.

Interesting... I'm on my way to the UK tomorrow so I'll be discussing all of my options with the admin folks and my chain. Just thought I'd bounce the question around in here too.

I'm in a really screwy situation right now and I'm not a big fan of the possible results. If it's anything like 2003, not only would I lose my job, my wife would get thrown back to CONUS with nowhere to go, and the Navy would be ****ed at me. What a deal! I love working for the Federal Government as a civilian and playing sailor on the weekend! If EGSR only knew...

Good morning all

The Navy knowing the length of the mobilization and the time remaining on a member’s contract..Why would they move forward with a mobilization without asking the member about re-enlisting or extending first?

I know several sailors who were near the end of enlistment or were in the zone to be eligible to retire stated their intentions and were never bothered or had "adverse" action taken against them.

A recommendation "against re-affiliation" is adverse action.

gmcm

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Originally posted by neverenoughammo:
Good morning all

The Navy knowing the length of the mobilization and the time remaining on a member’s contract..Why would they move forward with a mobilization without asking the member about re-enlisting or extending first?

I know several sailors who were near the end of enlistment or were in the zone to be eligible to retire stated their intentions and were never bothered or had "adverse" action taken against them.

A recommendation "against re-affiliation" is adverse action.

gmcm

Thanks.

My experience was limited on the subject, and I honestly admit I don't know current policies on this matter. What I do know was at the time, the Navy had little use for anyone that could not or would not mobilize when needed in accordance with current policies, etc. The only way around the issue was for the Sailor to look for a billet in a unit that was less likely to be subject to call-up - that was before we started getting into the IA situation, customs missions, and so forth.

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Originally posted by helmet91:
I have a very interesting situation:

There is a slight possibility of a mob (IA) coming up soon. Is it possible to be mobilized if your enlistment would be up halfway through the mob?

RUMINT says there might be a mob coming up at the start of the year; my enlistment ends this summer.

The issue I'm having is this: I'm currently working abroad (and drilling abroad); if I was to get mobilized I would lose my current position and my wife would be moved out and dumped back in the US. I would obviously prefer this not to happen.

I'm just worried that I could get mobilized, regardless of when my enlistment is up. Does anyone have any experience with this on the Navy Reserve side of things?

Thanks.

You CANNOT lose your current position if you are mobilized. If they do away with that position, then your company has to off you a comparable one. They can't take away any benifit, if you were to get raises in that time frame, they have to give them to you as well.
Go on the NGSR adn look up teh laws. You can google all your questions as well.

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Originally posted by billdawg24:
You CANNOT lose your current position if you are mobilized. If they do away with that position, then your company has to off you a comparable one. They can't take away any benifit, if you were to get raises in that time frame, they have to give them to you as well.
Go on the NGSR adn look up teh laws. You can google all your questions as well.

Bill,

I'm not sure his job falls under USERRA as he's working in the UK and not the US.

However, if he's working for a US company that has him working over there then he should be covered. I'm not very certain on that though.

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Originally posted by bduncs:

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Originally posted by billdawg24:
You CANNOT lose your current position if you are mobilized. If they do away with that position, then your company has to off you a comparable one. They can't take away any benifit, if you were to get raises in that time frame, they have to give them to you as well.
Go on the NGSR adn look up teh laws. You can google all your questions as well.

Bill,

I'm not sure his job falls under USERRA as he's working in the UK and not the US.

However, if he's working for a US company that has him working over there then he should be covered. I'm not very certain on that though.

Guy's a US federal employee working overseas.

In addition to talking with his unit and servicing PSD, he also needs to be discussing the situation with his civilian supervisor.

Thanks for the replies...

I guess I should have been more specific. I work for the Federal Government on assignment in Germany. My agency and the State Department will kick us out of our home (government provided) and send my wife back to my prior duty station in the event that I am mobilized/deployed.

The catch is this: My job will be saved for me in the sense that I will stay in the same job series and keep my pay. However, I will be relocated back to the US in the middle of my commitment in Germany.

Technically, the government is in the right by doing this. The State Department's policy is that you cannot be out of your residence for over 30 days. My agency's policy is to return the spouse and household goods to the home of record.

The bad thing is this: we sold our house; my wife quit a good job; the housing market sucks; finding a decent job is near impossible; she would have no where to go at our old duty station; among other issues. This is not stuff that I want to worry about when I'm down range.

The funny thing is that it costs a fortune to conduct a PCS move; train someone to take my spot; and to move the replacement in. The crazy cost coupled with the time it takes to move the replacement in is significantly more expensive than it would be to keep my wife in the house. That's government [in]efficiency for you!

Seeing that it's a new fiscal year I just completed the Ready Reserve Questionnaire... So we'll see what happens.