I am trying to go Active Duty from Reserve. I have submitted a conditional release, and it has been a year. Any ideas to get a unit release?

Yeah when I joined the National Guard in 1982 the rule of thumb was NO CONDITIONAL RELEASES would be signed until 2 years had elapsed since graduation from AIT. That was the rule when the force was growing rapidly under Ronald Reagan and they needed people on Active Duty. I don't know what the rules are today for USAR but would not be surprised if they had a limit like that as the force shrinks. Each transfer to Active Duty from USAR or NG sometimes means that someone on Active Duty has to wait longer for promotion (depends on the rank of the Soldier making the transfer).

The approval authority for release from the Army Reserve is HQ, USARC. Every level of your chain of command has to endorse it. Many DD368 conditional releases get kicked back down the chain from USARC because they don't have all the required documents, including a DA 4187. That is how it falls through the cracks, if it even made it to HQ, USARC in the first place. My advice is to review the current USAR policy on conditional releases and resubmit IAW that policy. See your S-1 for that.

Questions you should be asking the unit- the forum is good to see to what happened with others experiences, but every situation is unique in itself.