Drill Attendance while on Title 10 ADOS, do I still have to Drill?

Good advice here in regards to contacting your IG. I would also do everything in my power to push that interstate transfer through as soon as possible. I have had them done in less than 2 weeks before. When the IST is complete you will have 90 days before you are required to start attending drill at your new unit. This should give you enough time to figure out if/when you still need to attend drill at all while on Title 10.

This is my understanding of how it works. Your home unit can have your orders revoked at any time. If you are in PA ARNG be happy you are on ADOS since many people have been dropped from ADOS orders last year due to budgetary constraints. While you are on ADOs you are still counted against the RC rolls until 3 years of ADOS then you will be counted on Active Duty rolls instead of RC rolls. Even though you are on ADOS orders, you are still required to drill because you are a PA ARNG soldier and are responsible to your parent unit. If you didn't drill then you wouldn't be on ADOS orders either. The unit you are doing ADOs for also drills but you do not have to drill with them because they are not your parent unit.

You should not "have" to drill. Once on "active" duty you are no longer in reserve status, assigned to your reserve unit or report to them until you return to "reserve" status. You are active assigned to them 24/7. If the unit you are currently working active duty for requires you to attend TDY then travel orders with pay would be included. Recommend getting ahold of the Command Sgt for your active duty unit to help you. Even though this is the legal and right thing to do, this will not endear you to your home unit. I've heard lots of stories about how reserve units don't like having people not show up and be deployed or activated, even though that is the reason reserve members exist. Recommend joining ROA and reading the legal briefs they have.

Most definitely just because you are on ADOS doesn't mean you miss drill.

Currently I'm on ADOS orders. I've made an agreement with my Commander that I would attend AT, also I had the option to SUTA K my Junes drill (mind you a MUTA 8) , so I said yes but I was asked also if I didn't want to go. So it all depends

The correct way of handling this would have been prior to you even going on orders, you should have been counseled by someone in your COC. In this counseling, it should have clearly stated what both you and your units responsibilities were in the event that you become ADOS. This would have cleared up any misunderstandings.

I might have missed this before, but are you 100% positive that you are Title 10? Title 10 for an E4 is extremely rare...

The best advice I could ever give to you is to check the regulations. Both the states and the federals. I don't doubt that the advice you got from here is accurate but I would always CYOA and have the regulations to prove your position.

I am more familiar with Title 32 ADOS in which your unit CDR signs authorizing you to be on ADOS is kind of the power he/she holds to require you to come to drill or not, because they don't have to sign it the next time you are up for orders if they feel that they need you back in your home unit more. I was ADOS before for almost 3 years and always had to drill with my home unit, some months once with my home unit and another weekend with my ADOS unit. I see a lot of back and forth with ADOS Soldiers being pulled between their full time ADOS and MDay units, but as previously stated by someone else, ADOS is a privilege and not an entitlement; That is the price you pay for the vast benefits ADOS orders supply. As long as you remain on ADOS it will likely be a dance of accommodating both commands. The best way out in my opinion is working towards AGR. Also, we all are in a 24/7 status, that's why it's called "Active Duty" and as long as you belong to a unit, you have obligations to that unit. A better attitude would probably go a long way to help your cause as well. I hope that your IST works out soon and you don't struggle as much with the lodging and mileage requirements.

If you are under Title 10 orders (FEDERAL) no you don't go to drill. You shouldn't even be on the state roll and would be under your assigned T10 unit. Your RNCO needs to be slapped and learn the difference between T10 and T38.

Yes, they can still require you to attend drills - it's in your orders. ADOS and AGR positions still require you to drill with your M-Day unit. You won't be paid TDY or be reimbursed by the unit for hotels either, which is the same for M-Day Soldiers.

Now that the bad news is out of the way, there are two options to consider. You can pursue SUTA options with a closer unit. It sounds like your current unit is unwilling to do that, but try taking it up with your ADOS command or perhaps the higher headquarters. Personally, I can't think of a reason that I wouldn't let one of my Soldiers do that.

Two, National Guard duty has special tax laws governing travel beyond a certain mileage. You can claim the per diem rate for food, hotels, and incidentals as well as the standard mileage rate ($.565/mile) any time you travel over 100 miles from home for duty. This is treated as a credit, not an itemized deduction. Source: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc511.html

Good luck!