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This webpage provides legal and policy guidance specific to RC personnel who are mobilized as an IA or as part of an established commissioned unit. The IA policy webpage also contains IA policy guidance applicable to RC personnel.

---Legal Authority---

Currently, RC personnel are involuntarily ordered to active duty under the authority of 10 U.S.C. § 12302 pursuant to a Presidential Declaration of National Emergency in Presidential Proclamation 7463 of 14 Sep 01 and Executive Order 13223 of 14 Sep 01.  RC personnel who volunteer to serve on active duty in support of contingency operations are issued orders under the authority of 10 U.S.C. § 12301(d).

---DoD References---

DoD Instruction 1235.12 of 7 Jun 16
Accessing the Reserve Components (RC)

DoD Directive 1200.17 of 29 Oct 08
Managing the Reserve Components as an Operational Force

ASN Memo of 16 May 22
Authorized Limits On Long-Term Temporary Duty Contingency Operation Orders And Per Diem

---Navy References---

SECNAVINST 1800.2A
Policy and Procedures for RC Member Service Beyond 16 yrs of Active Duty Service

OPNAVINST 3060.7C
Navy Manpower Mobilization/Demobilization Guide

ASN (M&RA) Memo of 11 Jul 22
Authorized Limits On Active Component Long-Term Temporary Duty Contingency Operation Orders And Per Diem

MILPERSMAN 1050-272
Post-Mobilization Respite Absence for Reserve Personnel

MILPERSMAN 1620-020
Reservists Subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)

MILPERSMAN 1610-030
Procedures for Commands to Which Inactive Reserve Personnel (Officers and Enlisted) fail to Report to Involuntary Active Duty
 
NAVADMIN 235/08
RC IA Mobilization Business Rules

NAVADMIN 145/19
Mobilization Deferment Policy Update For Affiliation With The Selected Reserve

NAVADMIN 124/03
Demobilization of Naval Reservists Recalled in Support of ONE-OEF

NAVADMIN 056/08
Reserve Component Medical Hold Screening and Assignment

NAVADMIN 260/06
Enhanced TRICARE Reserve Select Program

NAVADMIN 066/03
TRICARE Benefits for Mobilized Reservists
 

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