Posted on Sep 14, 2017
My wife is active duty Air Force and was given orders to Japan; I am in the Army reserves. Can I move with her?
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Yes. Talk to your career counselor, she'll get you in contact with a unit over there, and you can continue to drill.
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Thank you very much SGT ! We just found out and she will be happy to hear good news!
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There are numerous IMA positions in Japan. You could look at getting one of those.
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SMSgt Thor Merich
To further answer your question, you are sort of like her dependent. So I don't know why you couldn't go. Japan is not a hardship tour like other places.
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As long as she has "Accompanied" orders, yes you can. Now, being that you are Reserves, your options will be that you can either find a Reserve unit in that region with your MOS, enter the IRR for a spell, travel back and forth to your current unit, or you can RST with a unit that is willing to work with you on this. Step 1 for you is to get with your Career Counselor/Retention NCO and see if they can find a Reserve unit in Japan with your MOS.
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SGT Jim Arnold
SSG Livingston, my question is Why does the reserve unit need to have specific MOS assignments? me being only active duty I dont really understand that reasoning. When I came back from Korea they supposedly had 400-500 26v e-4's roaming Ft. Gordon, They had us working in the gym, lawn care field units even had 1 as the post commanders driver. They assigned me as a in processing clerk for basic trainees and assignments to AIT units. So, Why does there need to be a specific MOS assignment for a reserve unit ?
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SGT Jim Arnold - Reserve units work a tad different than Active Duty. Reserves are more restrictive when it comes to slotting Soldiers within the MTOE. Can a Soldier be put into a slot not of their MOS? Sure.....but it takes some serious paperwork, and then the unit itself will get hit on Metrics for having Soldiers Non DMOSQ.
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