Appendix A to Part 102 - Uniform Reserve, Training and Retirement Categories

There are three RCCs. They are the Ready Reserve, The Standby Reserve, and the Retired Reserve. Each member of the National Guard and Reserve is assigned within one of those categories. (All National Guard members, including those in the Inactive National Guard (ING), are in the Ready Reserve.)

A. Ready Reserve Categories

The Ready Reserve is comprised of military members of the Reserve and National Guard, organized in units or as individuals, and liable for order to AD in time of war or national emergency under 10 U.S.C. 672 and 673 (reference (d)). The Ready Reserve consists of three subcategories: the Selected Reserve, the IRR, and the ING.

1. Selected Reserve. The Selected Reserve consists of those units and individuals in the Ready Reserve designated by their respective Services and approved by the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), as so essential to initial wartime missions that they have priority over all other Reserves. All Selected Reservists are in an active status. The Selected Reserve includes the following:

a. Selected Reserve Units. Units manned and equipped to serve and/or train either as operational or as augmentation units. Operational units train and serve as units. Augmentation units train together, but when mobilized, lose their unit identity and become part of AC unit or activity. Selected Reserve units include:

(1) Drilling Unit Reservists. Trained unit members participating in unit training activities on a part-time basis shall have the RCC and TRC designator of “SA”.

(2) Unit FTS Personnel—(a) AGR. Guard or Reserve members of the Selected Reserve serving on AD or full-time National Guard duty (includes Navy TAR personnel for organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training RC units. All unit AGR members must be assigned against or attached to an authorized mobilization position in the unit they support. They shall have the RCC and TRC designator of “SG.”

(b) Military Technicians (MTs). Drilling Reservists who are also Federal civilian employees providing FTS for administration, training, and maintenance in a Selected Reserve unit. MTS must maintain their status as drilling Reservists in the same unit they support as civilian employees. All dual status MTs must be in mobilizable positions. They are dual status in that they are both civilian employees and drilling Reservists of a Guard or Reserve unit, and are accountable under the TRC designator of “SA.”

(c) AC. AD members paid from military personnel appropriations assigned or attached to National Guard or Reserve units to provide advice, liaison, management, administration, training, and/or maintenance support in the category of FTS. Those members are not part of the Selected Reserve, but shall deploy with their assigned unit, should it mobilize. AC members performing FTS are counted as part of trained strength in units, but not in the Selected Reserve strengths.

(d) Civil Service Employees (CIV). Those personnel are hired under 5 U.S.C. 3101 and 32 U.S.C. 709 to provide administrative support to the RCs. They are in the category of FTS to the RCs, but are not part of the Selected Reserve.

b. Selected Reserve IMAs. Individual members of the Selected Reserve assigned to an AC organization. Trained individuals preassigned to an AC, a SSS, or a FEMA billet that must be filled on, or shortly after, mobilization. IMAs participate in training activities on a part-time basis with an AC unit preparing for active service in a mobilization. The amount of training required is determined by DoD policy and may vary from 0 to 48 IDT periods a year. All IMAs must perform a minimum of 12 days of AT each year and have the RCC and TRC designator of “TB.”

c. Training Pipeline. Selected Reserve enlisted members who have not yet completed IADT and officers who are in training for professional categories or in undergraduate flying training. IAW 10 U.S.C. 671, all Ready Reservists shall receive training commensurate with their intended wartime assignments, and must complete the basic training requirements of the member's Service before assignment on land outside the United States. The training pipeline is synonymous with the term “nondeployable account.” Personnel in the training pipeline may be mobilized, but may not always be available for deployment with their units. It is DoD policy that, if otherwise eligible for mobilization and deployment, they shall be considered as mobilizable assets. Training pipeline personnel are accounted for separately in the following training categories:

(1) Enlisted Members Currently on IADT. Includes the second part of split IADT, which has the RCC and TRC designator of “TF.”

(2) Enlisted Members Awaiting Second Part of Split IADT. Those members shall have the RCC and TRC designator of “UQ.”

(3) Enlisted Members Awaiting IADT. Includes members in the Selected Reserve serving with or without pay. NPS males between the ages of 181/2 and 26 years enlisting under 10 U.S.C. 511(d) shall enter IADT, insofar as practicable, within 270 days after the date of that enlistment. All other enlisted members shall perform IADT, insofar as practicable, within 360 days of their enlistment.

(a) Members Not Authorized To Perform IDT. Service performed by members while in that status is not creditable toward computation of basic pay and shall have the RCC TRC designator “UL.”

(b) Members Authorized To Perform IDT. Service performed by members while in that status is creditable toward computation of basic pay and shall have the RCC TRC designator of “UP.”

(4) Other Selected Reserve Untrained Personnel in Training Programs. Includes chaplain candidates, health profession students, and early commissioning program participants with the RCC and TRC designator of “UX.”

(5) AGR Enlisted Members Currently on, or Awaiting, IADT. Includes NPS AGR personnel (Navy TARs and ADSW) and has the RCC and TRC designator of “US.”

(6) Individuals in a Simultaneous Membership Program. Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Cadets, Selected Reserve enlisted members in officer candidate programs, and Marine Corps Platoon Leader Class students who are also permitted to be members of a Selected Reserve unit and have the RCC and TRC designator of “UT.”

2. IRR and ING. The IRR (together with the ING) consists of those Ready Reservists not in the Selected Reserve. The IRR consists of Reservists in the following categories:

a. IRR is a manpower pool comprised principally of individuals having had training, having served previously in the AC or in the Selected Reserve, and having some period of their MSO remaining. There are some voluntary individuals in the IRR for hardship or special nonpay programs providing a variety of professional assignments and opportunities for earning retirement points and military benefits. Those personnel all have an obligation to complete either MSO or another contractual commitment. Members voluntarily may participate in training for retirement points and promotion with or without pay. IRR members may be (but are not presently) required to meet the same training requirements as Selected Reservists. Required training (involuntary) may not exceed 30 days a year under 10 U.S.C. 270(a)(2).

b. The IRR also includes some personnel participating in officer training programs or in the AFHP Stipend Program. Members in that stipend program are required to perform 45 days of AD for training a year IAW 10 U.S.C. 2121(c). The RCC and TRC designator “PJ” is used for officers not in the Selected Reserve participating in officer training programs, or the RCC and TRC designator “PK” is used for officers not in the Selected Reserve participating in the Stipend Program.)

c. The IRR also includes members of the Delayed Entry Program (DEP) enlisted under 10 U.S.C. 513. (Currently, there is no requirement to account for those untrained members of the IRR in the RCCPDS.)

d. The ING consists of National Guard personnel in an inactive status in the Ready Reserve, not in the Selected Reserve, attached to a specific National Guard unit. To remain ING members, members must muster once a year with their assigned unit, but they do not participate in training activities. On mobilization, ING members mobilize with their units. Similar to other IRR, some ING members have legal and contractual obiligations. ING members may not train for points or pay and are not eligible for promotion. Currently, the ING category is used only by the ARNG and has the RCC and TRC designator of “II”.

B. Standby Reserve Categories

The Standby Reserve consists of personnel maintaining their military affiliation without being in the Ready Reserve, having been designated key civilian employees, or who have a temporary hardship or disability. Those individuals are not required to perform training and are not part of units. The Standby Reserve is a pool of trained individuals who may be mobilized as needed to fill manpower needs in specific skills. The Standby Reserve consists of the following training categories:

1. Active Status List. The following members of the Standby Reserve are in an active status:

a. Members designated as key employees IAW DoD Directive 1200.7,1 and transferred from the Ready Reserve to the Standby Reserve Active Status List for the period they remain designated as key personnel. Individuals desiring to be transferred shall apply directly to the DoD Component concerned. Key employees may participate voluntarily without pay in RC training for retirement points only and may be considered for promotion. While there is no statutory prohibition against paying active status Standby Reservists for IDT or AD, by DoD policy members of the Standby Reserve who have been screened out of the Ready Reserve as key employees may not be paid for training. They have the RCC and TRC designator of “YC.”

b. Personnel not having fulfilled their statutory MSO, or temporarily assigned for hardship reason intending to return to the Ready Reserve, or retained by an RC in an active status under 10 U.S.C. 1006. Those members may participate voluntarily with or without pay and may receive credit for, and be considered for, promotion. They have the RCC and TRC designator of “YD.”

2. Inactive Status List. The following members of the Standby Reserve are in an inactive status. They may not participate for points or pay and may not receive credit for or be considered for promotion:

a. Members transferred to the Standby Reserve Inactive Status List under 10 U.S.C. 1209 instead of separating. They have the RCC TRC designator of “YL.”

b. All other members transferred to the Standby Reserve Inactive Status List IAW DoD Directive 1235.9. They have the RCC TRC designator of “YN.”

C. Retired Reserve Categories

1. Consists of all personnel transferred to the Retired Reserve. Retired Reservists voluntarily may train, with or without pay, with a unit where they have premobilization orders. Suitable arrangements with the unit are required. The Retired Reserve consists of the following retired categories:

a. Reserve members who have completed 20 qualifying years creditable for retired pay and are in receipt of retired pay (at, or after, age 60) under 10 U.S.C. chapter 67. Those members shall be assigned the RCC and TRC designator of “V1.”

b. Reserve members who have completed 20 qualifying years creditable for retired pay and are not yet 60 years of age, or are age 60 and have not applied for retirement pay. Those members shall be assigned the RCC and TRC designator of “V2.”

c. Reserve members retired for physical disability under 10 U.S.C. 1201, 1202, 1204, or 1205. Members have completed 20 years of service creditable for retired pay or are more than 30-percent disabled. Those members shall be assigned the RCC and TRC designator of “V3.”

d. Reserve enlisted members who have completed 20, or more, years of active service and are receiving retired or retainer pay. Regular enlisted personnel of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps with 20 to 30 years of active Military Service who are transferred to the Reserve or the Fleet Naval Reserve on retirement until they have completed 30 years of total active and retired or retainer service, are NOT included in that category. That includes Regular (but not Reserve) Navy and Marine Corps retirees who are transferred to the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Mairne Corps Reserve, respectively. Those personnel shall be assigned the RCC and TRC designator of “V4”.

e. Reserve personnel drawing retired pay under other than age, service requirements, or physical disability. That category is restricted for retirement under special conditions, as authorized by the Office of the ASD(RA) (OASD(RA)) under legislation. Those personnel shall be assigned the RCC and TRC designator of “V5.”

2. All members retired having completed at least 20 years of active service (Regular or Reserve), regardless of the retired list where assigned, may be ordered to AD when required by the Secretary of the Military Department concerned, IAW 10 U.S.C. 688.

3. Retired Reserve members may be ordered to AD in their status as Retired Reserve members. It is not necessary to place the member in the Ready Reserve for that purpose.

4. Former members having completed 20 satisfactory years service creditable for retirement, but electing to be discharged from the RCs, are not a part of the Retired Reserve nor Military Service members.