Army Reserve Mobilizaiton

[SikofFalln]

I was wondering if anyone here was in the Guard or the Reserves? I lurked on this site when I was thinking about joining a few years ago and found some useful information.

Long story short, I received a phone call from my unit last week informing me that there is a strong chance I will be mobilized for 9-12 months. It will be stateside so I have that going for me. They called while I was seeing patients, and while I do not usually answer my phone during rounds, when I saw that it is my unit I did because they do not call me very often. But do to the timing I didn't have time to ask questions, and what isn't to unusual in my short military career, I have not received a return phone call and my emails have gone unanswered.

I was mainly wondering about pay? Do you just get a base OS2 or OS3 (what ever your rank is) salary? Or is there anything else? BHA? I know you get insurance for your family. Do you live on post for the time your there? I assume I will eventually get more answers, but with 3 kids and 1 on the way I am really concerned with leaving my wife and kids for a year, and taking a significant pay cut while doing so. I am also well aware I should have asked these questions before taking my commission, but what's done is done, and I am very happy and proud to be an army officer. I am just trying to plan for my family.

Any insight or advice is greatly appreciated!

[Tony1790, BSN, MSN, NP]

Did you not have any active time for training or did they just hand you a uniform and there you go? (It happens, sometimes). But if you are called to active duty, you get all the responsibility and all of the pay and allowances that your pay grade provides. The Active duty pay chart can be found online, try military.com, they usually have it posted. You should get BAH, I'm assuming based on where you are being stationed, hopefully they will have BOQ for you while there or something like that. I'm assuming that you are a medical officer, funny timing, calling up for training for 9 months, work up for being deployed? Anyway, you can get better answers either from your unit or someone that has been around longer, I've been retired from the military since 2006, times have changed. Good luck, hope that you don't have to go to Korea (north) anytime soon :-(

Be careful, thanks for serving

Tony