Do you count IRR as part of time in service?

Generally it is not, unless it is given as a good year, sometime it adds for your time in service for pay computations, but most of the time it does not. There are so many different categories within the IRR that tricky is a significant oversimplification.

I did 7.5 active, and 6 on IRR. The half year was enlistment overlap. To civilians who don't understand that I just say 8 years, to other military I usually say 7.5 because they understand the overlap difference. It saves having to explain that no, I didn't get kicked out, its just how my time ran.

I always answer 22 Years as that how long I actually spent in uniform. IRR time doesn't count toward retirement anyway., being able to be called up isn't the same as preforming the actual duties in uniform. Including the IRR its 37 years.

I was promoted in the marine corps IRR. Maybe not the air force but in the marine corps irr promotion if you had the cutting score would happen.

It completely depends in what status you are in the IRR.

You can be promoted in the IRR. I almost had to be transferred to the IRR from my TPU assignment because they did not have a slot for my new rank.

Thanks Sgt Maj!

I asked the question because I was only active for 2 years, then I went IRR for the next 5 and change. I always tell me people I served only 2 years. I should've been telling them 8?

8 is correct.

SGM Barry Kindred - Well, Sumbitch!

I would call and ask a recruiter for that answer.

I presume you mean GS civil service position. Only active duty time counts. Unless you did a couple of AD tours none of the IRR time counts. BTW, for the eight years of active duty to cound for service you have to buy back the time. It will cost you 3% of your base pay for those 8 years of service.

you are correct, but in the irr you can still receive a good year if you fullfil the points requirement, by taking correspondence courses, going on support missions, you can not get ncoes schools or any other schools, myself ended up in Hawaii for a support mission while irr, although it didn't give me a good year I still received the points for that time along with the affiliation points, i'm retired reserves now and still get 15 points a year until age 60, I have 20 year letter with 31 plus years in

MSG (Join to see) - Sounds tricky in order to still get your points. How does that even work with someone in the IRR, because if you're on a support mission, you go to an Active Component or Reserve?

yes you do but it is for time allotted, you do your mission come home and maybe do another, also having contact with your career planner helps, they find the mission you need only to accept or deny whether ad or ar, I don't know about navy but army you have a career counsellor, contact them and see whats available, so if you have seasonal civi job, and want work, points and money this will works, there are always shortages and yes irr can fill them

You can do schools and special assignments. Generally 29 days or less.

I was 4 active and 4 IRR in the USMC. Now that I'm active in the Army, they are counting it towards my time in service. If I want to retire in the Army, will they count the additional 4 years from IRR? If not, will I owe back pay for being in a higher pay bracket? TIS >6 years to TIS >8 years? or eventually TIS 15 years retired, instead of TIS 11 years of being in uniform?

SPC (Join to see) - Slightly complicated question. There are two different threads.
1. It counts for Longevity pay. When you look at the pay chart, us the "more than X years" column that includes your IRR time.
2. For retirement eligibility, you need to determine your total time active federal service (AFS), or equivalent AFS. Practically speaking, count up the number of days you served on active duty + the number of points you earned in the reserves and divide by 365. That is the number of years AFS you have. You need 20 of those to retire. And your retired pay will be final pay * Years AFS * 2.5% (unless you take the new blended system). I'm honestly not sure if your membership points would count towards AFS calculation, but you only have about 60 of them, so it doesn't make a practical difference.

For the record, reserve retirement works exactly the same way, with a few tweaks:
A. You need 20 "good years" (not AFS), which are years where you accumulated at least 50 points, in order to retire.
B. To determine equivalent years AFS, you use the same formula and divide by 360 (not 365, don't know why). Membership and correspondence points count, but you are limited to a maximum of either 360 or 365 per year.
C. You draw your retirement once you reach age 60, AND apply for retired pay (not automatic). It is possible to draw it earlier based on deployments after 2008.
D. The retired pay formula is exactly the same. Where an AC Soldier will retire at a minimum of 50% base pay (unless blended or redux), a reservist could theoretically retire with a minimum of 6.9% (active) base pay. Assumes the reservist did the absolute minimum possible and retired with exactly 1000 points (3.78 years AFS equivalent).