Posted on Nov 5, 2018
My wife is in the IRR and would like to promote. What’s the process? Who would she have to contact?
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My wife is in the IRR and would like to promote. What’s the process? Who would she have to contact?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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IRR
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Posted 6 y ago
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SGT (Join to see), I was promoted to captain in the IRR in 1981. I just got a letter in the mail one day stating that I had been so promoted.
As I was told at the time, an Army reservist in the IRR would be promoted to the highest rank for which their military education allowed upon reaching maximum time in grade requirements for the previous grade.
I’m sure regulations have changed since then, but that’s what happened to me.
LTC (Join to see) CAPT Kevin B. SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint SrA John Monette PVT Mark Zehner
As I was told at the time, an Army reservist in the IRR would be promoted to the highest rank for which their military education allowed upon reaching maximum time in grade requirements for the previous grade.
I’m sure regulations have changed since then, but that’s what happened to me.
LTC (Join to see) CAPT Kevin B. SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint SrA John Monette PVT Mark Zehner
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SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint
So all those active duty guys were worried about report cards and promotions, and they could have just got it by mail? Seems strange. Why did we waste so much time doing Evals. That sounds like all that work was a waste of time? The more of those you have to write the less fun it gets.
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LTC Stephen C.
No real answers for you, SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint, other than my own personal experience, which was by no means a singular or unique occurrence. Frankly, I never expected to serve again, as I had already fulfilled my military obligation. My promotion was nothing more than a fulfillment of the regulations in effect at the time regarding the promotion of reserve officers not on active duty.
I was a first lieutenant for a long time while in the IRR and not actively participating. Those on active duty were right to work their hardest, to get top blocks from their senior raters on their OERs, so that they might be promoted with minimum time in grade. I don’t think any of that was a waste of time.
I was a first lieutenant for a long time while in the IRR and not actively participating. Those on active duty were right to work their hardest, to get top blocks from their senior raters on their OERs, so that they might be promoted with minimum time in grade. I don’t think any of that was a waste of time.
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COL Jon Thompson
SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint - I left active duty in 1996 after getting passed over for promotion to Major. I still had an IRR commitment so I was surprised about a year later to see my name in the Army Times about being selected for Major in the Reserve. So I was passed over on active duty while working hard and selected for promotion in the Army Reserve for not doing anything. Actually I think the fact that I had completed CAS3 helped me over USAR captains who had not completed it. Several months later, I decided to join a Reserve unit. I told the Commander that I was selected for promotion but was not sure when it would go into effect. I called Infantry branch and found out that I had been promoted the previous October and just never got the orders.
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SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint
COL Jon Thompson - Great story. Just shows the Army works in mysterious ways....or very strange! I am glad you seem to see that when you worked hard it you should have go promoted or earned it...and then in IIR... This is why we join the Army...it is always interesting to watch.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint COL Mikel J. Burroughs CSM Charles Hayden SSG Carlos Madden SSG(P) James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint COL Mikel J. Burroughs CSM Charles Hayden SSG Carlos Madden SSG(P) James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"
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By law, IRR are eligible and compete in the same pool as Ready Reserve, etc. I did copy a note out of the Navy side: "NOTE: personnel in the IRR must compete for promotion with those members who are drilling. Extended time in the IRR may make a member less competitive for promotion, especially since IRR members do not receive fitness reports." I sat a number of boards and the IRR types without paper NEVER got promoted unless they did something heroic on an ADT or whatever which garnered say a Bronze Star and Special Fitness Report. At the lower ranks where promotion percentages are greater than say 80-90%, that can happen. However, if the promotion rate is around 50%, no way. It's a paper vs. body count thing. Bottom line, on paper it's feasible. In reality, you don't see it.
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