Go to the posts starting July 2, 2010 (page 53 for me). TheWholeTooth and DeadCactus did some good summaries of BOLC. And others followed...
If you are called up while in active drilling status, you are covered by the policies of the Guard or Reserve (90 days boots on ground). If you are under IRR, in the highly unlikely event of a recall, it would be to active army and under their deployment schedule (read: a hell of a lot longer.
The latter. The GI Bill is not an added obligation to the obligation you already hold, it's a requirement that you have a certain number of years you will serve. If that makes sense.
. I have a few questions for those who wouldnt mind helping me out. I know a great deal about HPSP and USHUS, but almost completely ignorant of ARNG medicine and programs
You do indeed have a limit to how many years you can take the GI Bill (3 years), and if you exhaust it for short-term gain (Ch 1606), you'll be SOL if you would have otherwise qualified for the Post-9/11 GI Bill after a deployment.
Yes. The deal isn't as sweet as it sounds. You need to serve an additional 4 years from the time you transfer over the benefits. Your wife can use it up to 15 years after you resign and your child can use it up to the age of 26yo, but they can't use it until you've hit the 10 years of service mark. There's a full listing of the program here.
You are obligated to drill approximately 1 weekend per month and 2 weeks per year, but you can also be ACTIVATED in case of natural disaster or war. ARNG docs are activated right now for up to 120 days as frequently as every two years.
They do when they are activated (though probably not as much as your typical active duty doc, since they have some incentive pay they can get for promising to serve longer periods than Guard docs.
MDSSP is all that you would qualify for as a medical student. You get a stipend of about $2K/month while in medical school. You owe the national guard 2 years of drilling status service for every 1 year of benefits you get. These are paid back AFTER you finish residency.
You get these when you are activated or on missions. Otherwise, you get drill pay, which again, you can google.
Depends on how small you define "small." It also depends on how big a hit your partners are willing to take for when you deploy.
It depends on the employer. Small practices this would be a big hit. For a large practice, not so much.
Lying by ommission would be bad juju. You end up having to get time off for drill and self-disclose, which will make your employer think you a liar, conniving, and not to be trusted. When your time comes that you get called up, your fellow employees are more likely to resent you rather than shoulder your load (and it will be a load).
HPLRP is a little funky, because it is not actually obligating.
I was told yes by a recruiter who had a slide demonstrating this as an option, but I have not seen it done nor seen a policy doc allowing this, so I'd take it with a grain of salt.
Guard folks get the same priority as civilians, so it's on a case-by-case basis after no HPSP/USUHS students get their pick. I've never heard of the state putting you on orders for travel, lodging, or pay. With today's climate, I'd be surprised to see it happen.
Your post is the first I've seen of it, though it's starting to make its way around the web.
If they ever implemented a 7 week drill policy, they'd have to rewrite the policy for healthcare folks, as the old one wouldn't apply. There wouldn't be any "grandfathering." The AT policy for docs is a policy, not in the contract. It can be changed with the sweep of a pen.
It doesn't work this way. Military residencies are for full time military. You could probably work out a deal where you could convert from Guard to full time military for residency, but you'd owe them four or so years full time active duty service after.
Well, there's not much you can do about it now. For the sake of future applicants (and this has come up before), joining the Guard in a non med student capacity tends to be a bad idea. Once you finish BCT and get MOS qualified, you have duties that are hard to shrug off.
People handle drill and med school fine. It's do-able, it's just a lot easier as a medical student rather than MOS qualified student.
What are you talking about when you say the "AMEDD program?" I'm not sure what you mean. You can join as a medical student and just drill or you can take funds as a medical student that require obligated payback by drilling throughout and after residency (google MDSSP).
