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How does the years of schooling as a reservist impact your TIS/TIG? I know active duty is pretty straight forward besides something about time deployed can count as two years. If my schooling takes 4 years, does that count as 4 years TIS? If not, is the CPIP when it starts? Also, from your experiences, how does the 45 days a year work out? Are most schools accommodating? Does it have to be all at once or can it be broken up throughout the year? Thanks again guys for all the info, first hand experience is always the best resource.
1. When you go active, you will be an 0-3 (CPT) with 0 years TIS. (Also deployments do not count double. When you get an LES, it will tell you how many High Temo days you have, which is supposed to determine when you can deploy again. Good luck with that one, by the way). In contrast, when I go active, I will be an 0-3E with >7. Because I have those years of active duty prior to HPSP. When you are in graduate school, you are IRR, which is about as "not in the Army" as you can be and still be in the Army. And remember, no matter how long it takes you to finish your license, your payback starts AFTER that. So you will PROBABLY be an 0-3 with >2 when you start your payback time.
2. ADT does not give you any TIS for some reason.
3. However, you are given "constructive credit" for graduate school, which is roughly the equivalent of TIG. It means, "we are making you a CPT because you have so much school." Hence, there is no such thing as a doctor/lieutenent.
4. For clinical psychology, ADT is usually done at school, 45 days at a time, once per year. This is because most PhD programs just don't work out to let you go away for that long to do something else. I am not saying it is not possible, it is just difficult.