Posted on Apr 19, 2016
IRR - No more correspondence courses for retirement points! What do I do?
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The chief of the IRR/IMA branch at HRC sent out a message recently that there has been a change to the regulations, and correspondence courses will no longer count towards retirement points!!!! What do I do in order to have a good year??? (USAR)
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You may request to do an AT with a unit to get your retirement points chief or find a local career counselor to put you into a Reserve unit.
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Request an AT with a specific unit? Does that mean that unit will pay out of its budget for my AT? HRC's IRR/IMA branch clearly stated that there's no AT for IRR soldiers this FY...it's not in HRC's budget.
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UPDATE: I'm back in TPU-land, have been since August. The unit and the mission are great. It's a very small detachment, and the possibility of deployment is low right now. Either Djibouti or Germany, and I'd have to volunteer for it.
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Plus, I've got two weeks of AT coming up at the end of this month, so when my RYE date of 13 March gets here, I'll still have a good year, despite 7 months in the IRR.
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if you need 10 yrs as an officer ( I have 20 enlisted) can you retire as an officer in the IRR?
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Yes. But only if those years are good years. You get 15 points for affiliation and need to find another 35 points for a good year. Correspondence courses don't count anymore, so you could get them by drilling for points only with a unit.
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