If someone gets a commission in the USAR, does the commission say that they are a Reserve officer in the Army of the United States (AUS)?

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My commission June 2003 was USAR and Veteran's Day 2005 became RA. Nineteen years later, I still have no clue about any of this... Had a friend who planned to do her four and get out all scared about the RA change. I told her not to worry. She is either still in or retired:)

MAJ Byron Oyler - Not sure how much you know about the ADL and RASL* or the DoD/Army policies affecting it, but a 'one over the world' is that you can think of the ADL as Active Component (COMPO 1) and the RASL as the Reserve Components (ARNG/USAR - COMPO 2&3).

Prior to 1 May 2005*, you could be a RC officer on the ADL because the type of commission you received was based on how you got that commission (USMA, ROTC, etc.) and not the component you were serving in.

However, since then all officers, regardless of the source, commissioned for service on the ADL received Regular commissions and all reserve commissioned officer on the ADL were given Regular commissions if eligible, and if not, served out their MSO and then were separated from the active component.
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* Federal law (10 USC 620 and 10 USC 14002) establishes the requirement for each military department to maintain an Active Duty List (ADL) and Reserve Active Status List (RASL).

The ADL for each service branch is a list containing all active-duty officers in order of seniority for each competitive category. The RASL for each service branch is a list containing all active-status reserve officers (other than those on active duty) in order of seniority for each competitive category.

COL Randall C. - Completely outside the main topic here, I just waded through a government maze to find my DoD Identification Number.

I'm sure that many here recently received a letter from the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs reminding us that "service connected" veterans have commissary privileges. While I was in the Army I rarely used the commissary in CONUS because prices and selection weren't really that great, so I never missed not having commissary privileges when I got out. A few years ago they expanded eligibility but I didn't pay much attention. With the various changes that have been made, I have commissary privileges as a retired DA Civilian employee and as a service connected veteran and as a Purple Heart recipient. As I said, I had not been paying any attention to having commissary privileges but the latest letter claimed the commissary provided an "average of 25% savings" which seemed unlikely but worth checking out. It had been about 40-50 years since I had last been in a commissary, but now they have online sales flyers and the like so I decided to look at the website.

Doing much of anything on the website requires creating an account, so I filled out the form. Or at least I started filling out the form, until I got to the last line on the form where it required your DoD Identification Number. The form even provided an explanation that most veterans don't know their DoD ID number because it's not on our ID card. The website provided a link that was supposed to tell us how to find our DoD ID number. I tried the link but it just looped back to the top of the form. This was annoying so I emailed the DeCA contact about it.

DeCA sent me back an email with the correct link. They mentioned that the DoD ID number is not on the Veterans Healthcare ID card so you had to go to the DMDC website and create a DS login to reach your account to get the number. I tried that only to find that the process doesn't work if you are using a computer. The site is supposed to be able to send a link to your phone, but it does that by email and it also doesn't work.

Finally, as a last resort, I called the DMDC phone number DeCA had given me and after wading through a couple of layers of voice menu I was finally transferred to DEERS were a very nice lady explained that it was all totally unnecessary because the DoD ID number really is on the Veterans Healthcare ID card the only problem is that the VA calls it the "Member ID" -- all that run-around just to get a 10-digit number that I had been carrying in my wallet the whole time, but no one knew that's what it was.

Talk about FUBAR. Used to be, would say, a commissioned Officer in the United States Army.