New NRMP rules and time of resignation implications?

[upchit]

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Hi All,

Asking for input on the implications of an AD commitment that ends July 1 2014 with the new match rules that we cannot accept positions outside the match...

I am trying to resign my commission at the end of my 4 year active obligation to enter a civilian program in July 2014. I am coming up on my last year in, starting the resignation process and getting my eras/nrmp issues in order.

I am concerned that if I am held back by my command until exactly July 1 (or even later for some unknown reason that is within the realm of possibility), I will not be able to start a civilian program in July (practically speaking I will need to be there in June for orientation) and really anger the program or lose my contract with the program. However, I am not able to enter as an off-cycle start with a position outside the match unless I wait until February 1 of the next calendar year as I read the new NRMP rules (so that would be February 2015).

Conversely, if I can plan to use accrued leave and get to the program in June, I will have to pay back one month pro-rated ASP bonus if I accept the full bonus this July, is that how everyone else reads the rules? Its not a problem financially but I want to make sure I have the check in by certified mail to Millington now so they cannot hold it over my head.

Thanks in advance.

I am AD Navy for the purposes of the question.

 

[NavyFP]

First, unless you have finished 8 years since you entered active duty (completed the IRR requirement), you will merely be released from active service vice true resignation.

To really answer the question, it will depend on your command. If your command will permit it, you can take terminal leave and depart in late May/early June. If your unit has more than one medical officer or you are in a clinic job, it will likely happen. Some will keep you until the bitter end, and some still can keep you later. There is the whole "until properly relieved" phrase that the personnel people like to throw around, but for those leaving active service, it is usually not later than 30 June.

If you want PM me and we can discuss your more finite details.