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 Prior Service Cash Bonuses Up To $150,000 For Selected Military Programs. Click For Info Individual Ready ReserveIndividual Ready Reserve of the US Military refers to the personnel who have military training and have served in the Active Army or the Reserve, but have some contract period left. Such Individual Ready Reserve is in active status, but do not serve in the army regularly. All the enlisted soldiers have to serve for a specific number of years. However, they might serve only some of those years in active duty. If the army deactivates them, they can join the National Guard or Active Reserve and continue to train and draw their salaries. Individual Ready Reserve is the soldiers who had not opted for active service and so if need be, will have to serve in active army until their enlistment period expires. Deactivated soldiers of the US Military will have to serve, if need be, until they resign their commissions or reach the mandatory retirement age. Many officers do not resign their commissions with an eye on the pension benefits. There are around 118,000 soldiers in the Individual Ready Reserve of the US Military. Around 6,000 such soldiers entered active duty to support the US forces in Iraq recently. Before this approximately 20,000, such troops reentered active service during the Operation Desert Storm in the 1991 Gulf War. The general contracts are for four years in active duty and a similar term for inactive duty. While recalling Individual Ready Reserve soldiers, they have 30 days from the date of issuance of orders to complete their personal business and report at the mobilization site. They spend the next 30 days at this site getting individual weapons qualifications, conducting Common Task Testing; receiving training in improvised explosive devices, etc. The soldiers who pass these tests proceed to get refresher training for two to four weeks at military occupational specialty schools and then join the deploying unit for collective training for 30 days before finally proceeding to the actual place of service.
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