Posted on Oct 26, 2015
How do you feel about the plan to make IRR more active?
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http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/10/26/irr-review/74274560/
The Pentagon seems to be planning to make it a common occurence to activate the IRR for missions. My thought is that a volunteer force can only work if the 'volunteers' are willing to do the work. When a servicemember gets out completely instead of active reserves, they generally have a reason to do so. This is usually starting a family, building a career, going to school, or just a generally refusal to continue with the military.
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The Pentagon seems to be planning to make it a common occurence to activate the IRR for missions. My thought is that a volunteer force can only work if the 'volunteers' are willing to do the work. When a servicemember gets out completely instead of active reserves, they generally have a reason to do so. This is usually starting a family, building a career, going to school, or just a generally refusal to continue with the military.
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Good luck.
Trying to mobilize the IRR for GWOT operations was an abysmal failure. The personnel in there are just not maintaining a military standard, and most have moved on with their lives.
The IRR is meant for national emergencies, not routine missions. This is an attempt to justify even more cuts to the AC/RC/Guard force.
Trying to mobilize the IRR for GWOT operations was an abysmal failure. The personnel in there are just not maintaining a military standard, and most have moved on with their lives.
The IRR is meant for national emergencies, not routine missions. This is an attempt to justify even more cuts to the AC/RC/Guard force.
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My experience is that they are involved in civilian careers which limits them from keeping Military skills crisp. Physical conditioning also comes into play. How dedicated are these people to not be in the Reserve program instead of IRR? Nothing against them but if the Government wants to bring them up, why continue any draw down of forces in place?
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Cpl Sarah Mast
I believe so as well. Between the need to retrain and recondition most of the IRR pool and having to overcome the negative sentiment of being called back involuntarily, I think it would be much better to solve their manpower problems by taking another look at their retention issues. Not necessarily cheaper, but more effective.
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SGT David T.
Cpl Sarah Mast - While I think that most IRR people are good people, my experiences with them have been less that fun. They generally are not motivated and are their simply because they were drafted (more or less). I ran in to the same things with stop lossed people. I would prefer to see the IRR just go away and like you say focus on retention. Granted it is not cheaper but it would be money well spent that provides the forces with the best value.
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