Battle assemblies

[heysexylady]

Quick question: I joined the army reserves last year.

I asked for a base close to me. They placed me in one that is 5-6 hours away. What can I do to change the location. I asked my administrator by email to change it. She said she will try to do something about it but added she had to go to Texas for her drills (she is not a physician).

I am new in the military and I don't have family or friends that could point me to the right direction.

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[Aleaz]

Caps for emphasis only🙂
You joined the Reserves so when you graduate be prepared for activation as a GMO after Internship. I'd hesitate to join in a wartime as I was wounded in Iraq in 2007...etc etc etc. Multiple deploys right out of Residency. So I know...
The Army Reserve has few areas to drill. You must drive to where that place is unless you can re-arrange to do some sort of work at a hospital in exchange. I knew a plastic surgeon who operated during drill weekends at a local hospital on military patients for free (just Reserve pay)...there ARE possibilities if you get creative enough but you must find them because the people in charge have NO time to do that and will stick to protocol. Being a med student you have no time for this but you must make time...so find something close involving the VA hospital (may be one close?)or military hospital/offices and find a place there and have someone at that facility go to bat for you to be there as a 'work exchange'...GET CREATIVE.

 

[armytrainingsir]

To what kind of unit are you assigned?
What MOS?
HPSP? or did you join before medical school?
Details would be very helpful.

 

[TheEarDoc]

Quick question: I joined the army reserves last year.

I asked for a base close to me. They placed me in one that is 5-6 hours away. What can I do to change the location. I asked my administrator by email to change it. She said she will try to do something about it but added she had to go to Texas for her drills (she is not a physician).

I am new in the military and I don't have family or friends that could point me to the right direction.

Depending on your speciality (AOC) your closest unit with your AOC might be a few hours away or half way across the country. You are slotted in the unit you are slotted in. You have options. You can see if a unit is closer that has an open slot for your AOC and is willing to take you as a transfer. If so be prepared to do the leg work to make it happen and your current commander would have to agree to remove you from their roster and sign the transfer paperwork. Another option is stay attached to your unit and find a closer unit to drill with (called RST) and then work with you commanding officer to determine what drills and how many drills per year you will report to. You also would be responsible for going to ETC each year with your unit unless excused by your commanding officer. The months you do not report to your home unit you would drill with a closer medical unit and they sign a 1380 form to submit for pay and points. This is what I do as my unit is about 1000 miles from my home.

If your unit is 5-6 hours away you will get lodging in kind for drill so they will put you up in a hotel for battle assembly and you usually have a roomate of close to the same rank. They will reimburse you up to $500 per battle assembly for flights, parking, uber, etc. and you just submit a travel voucher in DTS.

 

[heysexylady]

Caps for emphasis only🙂
You joined the Reserves so when you graduate be prepared for activation as a GMO after Internship. I'd hesitate to join in a wartime as I was wounded in Iraq in 2007...etc etc etc. Multiple deploys right out of Residency. So I know...
The Army Reserve has few areas to drill. You must drive to where that place is unless you can re-arrange to do some sort of work at a hospital in exchange. I knew a plastic surgeon who operated during drill weekends at a local hospital on military patients for free (just Reserve pay)...there ARE possibilities if you get creative enough but you must find them because the people in charge have NO time to do that and will stick to protocol. Being a med student you have no time for this but you must make time...so find something close involving the VA hospital (may be one close?)or military hospital/offices and find a place there and have someone at that facility go to bat for you to be there as a 'work exchange'...GET CREATIVE.

I am not a medical but a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow. Thank you for the suggestion, I really like your ideas.

 

[heysexylady]

To what kind of unit are you assigned?
What MOS?
HPSP? or did you join before medical school?
Details would be very helpful.

It's the HPSP. I was commissioned last summer but it was only until recently that they contacted me ... they had a hard time locating me and lost track of me.

 

[heysexylady]

Depending on your speciality (AOC) your closest unit with your AOC might be a few hours away or half way across the country. You are slotted in the unit you are slotted in. You have options. You can see if a unit is closer that has an open slot for your AOC and is willing to take you as a transfer. If so be prepared to do the leg work to make it happen and your current commander would have to agree to remove you from their roster and sign the transfer paperwork. Another option is stay attached to your unit and find a closer unit to drill with (called RST) and then work with you commanding officer to determine what drills and how many drills per year you will report to. You also would be responsible for going to ETC each year with your unit unless excused by your commanding officer. The months you do not report to your home unit you would drill with a closer medical unit and they sign a 1380 form to submit for pay and points. This is what I do as my unit is about 1000 miles from my home.

If your unit is 5-6 hours away you will get lodging in kind for drill so they will put you up in a hotel for battle assembly and you usually have a roomate of close to the same rank. They will reimburse you up to $500 per battle assembly for flights, parking, uber, etc. and you just submit a travel voucher in DTS.

Thank you this was helpful.

 

[armytrainingsir]

Wait. You were HPSP, yet joined last year and you are a current fellow? I am confused.

HPSP means you were in the .mil (IRR) for most or all of medical school. Which is why the 'HPSP' and 'joined last year' seem to be incongruous.