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Can someone explain to me about the truth about transfer to an IMA unit. I was told several things such as transfer can process after DEMOB. Is this true?
Individual Mobilization Augmentation (IMA)
Transfer
Orders
Posted >1 y ago
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What is your question regarding them?
IMA (Individual Mobilization Augmentee) are integrated positions within an active duty organization (usually). In the Army, they are managed through the US Army Reserve.
You'll apply for a position the same as you would with any other reserve position - it's just the person who you would interact with will differ. Additionally IMAs are usually focused on the section they support in the active duty organization. What I mean by that is it's not uncommon to have 15 IMAs going in different directions and only coming back together one or two times a year to do mandatory collective training. Again, it can widely differ from unit to unit.
When I was the RC Advisor at Army Cyber Command, the IMA positions were overseen by me (I was a one-man band when it was stood up... understand there's a directorate of multiple people there now). At USCYBERCOM, the IMAs were overseen by an IMA O6 (and staff) that was taken out of hide and worked with the J1, other units do it different ways.
Drilling IMAs go to weekend duty just like Guard/Reserve troop units, but often drill at different times depending on the section they are assigned to.
You can an "official Army overview" of the IMA program at https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/IMA%20Program%20Overview. This will also allow you to get contact info for many of the IMA coordinators out there, but in my experience it could be very dated (wouldn't be surprised if I still show up on that list and I've been out of that job for about eight years).
IMA (Individual Mobilization Augmentee) are integrated positions within an active duty organization (usually). In the Army, they are managed through the US Army Reserve.
You'll apply for a position the same as you would with any other reserve position - it's just the person who you would interact with will differ. Additionally IMAs are usually focused on the section they support in the active duty organization. What I mean by that is it's not uncommon to have 15 IMAs going in different directions and only coming back together one or two times a year to do mandatory collective training. Again, it can widely differ from unit to unit.
When I was the RC Advisor at Army Cyber Command, the IMA positions were overseen by me (I was a one-man band when it was stood up... understand there's a directorate of multiple people there now). At USCYBERCOM, the IMAs were overseen by an IMA O6 (and staff) that was taken out of hide and worked with the J1, other units do it different ways.
Drilling IMAs go to weekend duty just like Guard/Reserve troop units, but often drill at different times depending on the section they are assigned to.
You can an "official Army overview" of the IMA program at https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/IMA%20Program%20Overview. This will also allow you to get contact info for many of the IMA coordinators out there, but in my experience it could be very dated (wouldn't be surprised if I still show up on that list and I've been out of that job for about eight years).
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Sir, my question is on transfer orders to the IMA. I was told that transfer orders couldn’t be published if you’re on mobilization orders. However, once off orders, they can issue transfer orders. Was recently told that the orders now have to be manually overriden. HRC couldn’t provide a status.
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COL Randall C.
The first part sounds about right. That specifically is a HRC thing so I would have to defer to them. I used to have the PPG (guess it's called the AMDR now) practically memorized, but that was 10 years ago. The latest version I was able to find on the web was from 2020 (https://www.armyg1.army.mil/docs/amdr/AMDR2020.pdf).
You could also dig though AR 140-10 (Assignments, Attachments, Details, and Transfers) and see if there's an answer in there regarding "You can't be transferred until demobilization".
This doesn't stop you from finding out about IMA positions, calling the IMA coordinators, interviewing if required (telephonically, virtually or by email), etc. I just recently gave this advice in another topic, so I'll just cut & paste...
You can go to HRC's website and do a vacancy search (on the right) to see what pops up. According to HRC, "All IMA vacancies may be found within the 'Vacancy Search Tool' site", but my personal experience is that you should follow-up with a phone call because in many cases the vacancies may not be reflected in the database.
(https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/IMA%20Program%20Overview)
Not sure if there's a more current version (this one is 2019), but here's a link to HRC's IMA Handbook - should answer a lot of your questions if you have any.
https://www.southcom.mil/Portals/7/Documents/USAG-M%20docs/IMA%20Handbook%20Army.pdf
You could also dig though AR 140-10 (Assignments, Attachments, Details, and Transfers) and see if there's an answer in there regarding "You can't be transferred until demobilization".
This doesn't stop you from finding out about IMA positions, calling the IMA coordinators, interviewing if required (telephonically, virtually or by email), etc. I just recently gave this advice in another topic, so I'll just cut & paste...
You can go to HRC's website and do a vacancy search (on the right) to see what pops up. According to HRC, "All IMA vacancies may be found within the 'Vacancy Search Tool' site", but my personal experience is that you should follow-up with a phone call because in many cases the vacancies may not be reflected in the database.
(https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/IMA%20Program%20Overview)
Not sure if there's a more current version (this one is 2019), but here's a link to HRC's IMA Handbook - should answer a lot of your questions if you have any.
https://www.southcom.mil/Portals/7/Documents/USAG-M%20docs/IMA%20Handbook%20Army.pdf
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