Need help from those familiar with the Army Reserves...

[utahkennedys]

We have a strange situation with our friends I won't go into detail about, but can someone help me with this question?

Supposedly, this guy is going with the Army Reserves to Honduras...supposedly he got his orders like a month ago, but now nothing is happening...we keep hearing conflicting stories about his paperwork not being complete, etc. - and let's just say we figure if the Army says you are going somewhere on a certain date, we think you pretty much go then.

Does anyone have an experience similar to this? I ask because we are beginning to wonder if he is even in the reserves, if he is going anywhere, etc. We think he may have used this as an excuse to get our friend to marry him and now suddenly he won't have to go. I know it sounds paranoid, but there is a big, big history of lies here...

I guess my REAL question is how it works when you are called up in the Army Reserves, like how long the time frame is, etc?

 

[MOMOFMNM]

unless he is activated like to IRAQ or something due to the war, which in hat case my x husband had about 2 days to prepare...maybe he is thinking he is going to Honduras...I know my ex knew he was going to Bosnia WAAAY before he actually went, like 6 mos before, due to the fact that he was replacing another troop so they knew the timeframe. This is the ARMY and they tell you where and when when they are good and ready...they pay you like that too sometimes! It is frustrating but it can be complicated. I have no idea the situation but if he is a reservist he would have to have one weekend a month unless in the IRR...inactive reserves....and he would have a unit like the 4224th US army hospital. He would also have an MOS and two weeks training. He would more than likely have military garb around his home like BDU's and boots and he would have to shave his beard and or facial hair before going to drill the weekend (usually.) HTH

 

[va32h]

My husband is active duty in the Active Guard Reserve. Basically, that means he is full-time Army, but attached to a Reserve unit. So he deploys with the Reserves.

And yes, there is a lot of "hurry up and wait" in the Army. And yes, they lose paperwork all the time. In fact, the finance department forgot to pay my husband at all for about two months. They lost his reinlistment paperwork.

Anyway, in terms of deployment, there could be problems with arranging transportation for the unit, or getting their equipment overseas - or they could be sending the equipment first via ship and then the soliders a couple months later via air.

One unit here in Texas was supposed to go to Kuwait last year. They were sent to Fort Hood, which is in Central Tex, to mobilize and prepare for departure. Well four months later, they were still hanging around the barracks on Ft. Hood, when their mission was scrapped and they were sent home.

There is no time frame you can really say for certain. Dh has been given 48 hours to mobilize, and two months to mobilize.

 

[utahkennedys]

Thanks, that is helpful. I appreciate it. We already have a lot of fears from odd happenings, and this was just driving us crazy...I guess since it isn't a deployment for war, that could explain the delay.

 

[va32h]

If they are already married, and if he is being deployed, your friend should have been contacted by a Family Readiness Group and attended a few pre-deployment workshops. She will need an ID card, a Power of Attorney so she can manage their affairs while he is gone, and information regarding his life insurance, will, etc.

 

[tn_disney_addict]

My son's unit 844th was the same way - hurry up an wait! He is in Kuwait now. There were meetings and paperwork to be filled out, though...definitely a good indicator!

 

[Brightsy]

I'm an Army Brat, Army Vet (Desert Storm Era) and now am an Army Wife. My DH is Active Duty, and thankfully not deployed (keeping fingers crossed that this will stay that way). I was AD for four years and in the Reserves for almost 2 more after that.
When my unit got deployed to the SandBox during Desert Shield/Storm we at first were only told that we were going. We didn't actually know the dates until like a day or two before departure. They do that for security reasons, and when we did know the day of departure I couldn't call my folks and tell them I was leaving. I was able to get the message across because my Dad was retired military and he knew the drill.
But with more standard deployments you often have orders and know when you are going.
As another poster said sometimes things get lost, orders misplaced, plans changed and so on.
The Army is big on hurry up and wait. It can be hard to say what's going on sometimes... Be patient and all will come clear sooner or later.

Sara

 

[Msslaydbug]

Yep i aree with everyone else ...Army is all Hurry up and Wait !! It drives me crazy sometimes but that is just the way it goes. DH is ANG and when he joined he was gone for 11 months , basic training, LONG MOS training school, and then airborne after that. I wouldn't think he would go anywhere before he left for basic training, learned his MOS, and came back home with a TON of military garb.

DH also went to Korea erlier this year they were suppossed to leave on a Monday and it kept being pushed back and pushed back. Finally got word that he was leaving on that Friday PM - we were on our way to the AIRPORt when they called and told us to turn around they weren't leaving yet. UGH !! He did end up leaving the next morning and we had to be to the airport by 4am - yuck !!

HTH !!