MSG Glenn
03-21-2008, 03:48 PM
My son who is in the 3rd Batt., 75th Ranger Regt. is getting off of Active Duty on 19 May '08. He's already signed up for a Reserve unit. He'll be an instructor in the 1st Batt (Rec), 134 Regt, 88th RRC. It's a Reserve Reception Battalion. For those unfamiliar with the U.S. Army that's the place recruits are first sent upon entry into the Army & before they start BCT. They're taught rudimentary Army Drill & Ceremony, Army rank structure & basic Army discipline amongst many other things. That's the place where they're given their haircuts, shots, their service records are started, etc. They also do uptraining of activated Reserve & Guard units prior to their deployment & he thinks possibly ROTC training missions. If I'm not mistaken that's what the unit where I served as an Active Army Advisor to the Reserves became. It used to be 7th Brigade, 84th Division (TNG) & we had the exact same mission with the 5091st Reception Battalion attached to us.
For a 3 year contract he gets a $10,000 bonus & a 2 year non-deployment guarantee. Not too bad. That'll give him less than a year left on his 8 year obligation in which he's excused from any other reserve duty.
He said tha hardest thing he'll have to do is stop wearing his Tan Beret!
For a 3 year contract he gets a $10,000 bonus & a 2 year non-deployment guarantee. Not too bad. That'll give him less than a year left on his 8 year obligation in which he's excused from any other reserve duty.
He said tha hardest thing he'll have to do is stop wearing his Tan Beret!