Air Force Reserve Nursing and Deployment

This is how I understand it for active duty AF for example. On my base I’m replacing a nurse that was sent recently to an Al-Qaeda / Taliban prison in Afghanistan for about 6 months. When deployed you are not attached to any units. It’s individual for nurses. We are on a list somewhere and chosen by our qualifications at the moment of need. The nurse before that went to Honduras tto a Army base and did humanitarian work. Hope this helps?

It also depends on what job you hold in the reserves. If you're a flight nurse, for example, you will deploy differently. The AFR does between 75-85% of all transports for the AF. The units are on a rotating schedule so that new missions are filled by one unit for a year, then they have 2 years off. When a new mission comes up, the deployable RN's and support staff volunteer...if they don't get enough volunteers to fulfill the mission, they will offer the mission to other units as well. If there are still not enough volunteers, then there will be qualified members of the primary unit given orders to go. Very easy, but very different than many other branches of the military reserves.