{"id":139252,"date":"2023-03-30T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139252"},"modified":"2023-03-28T00:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T04:31:18","slug":"activating-veteran-navy-sailors-for-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139252","title":{"rendered":"Activating veteran Navy Sailors for deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Luther Ray Abel, a National Review writer, provided an opinion piece offering solutions for the Navy’s recruiting challenges. One recommendation that he proposed involved contacting a Sailor that got out of the Navy and asking him if he would like to go on deployment. If the veteran agrees, a Navy JAG office provides orders to report to MEPS for processing. Once MEPS is cleared, the Sailor reenlists on a contract that covers the deployment, subject to extension. Abel provides additional recommendations on what the Navy could do to shore up its ranks.<\/p>\n

From the National Review:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is an opportunity: We should seek out experienced separated sailors and offer them temporary positions back aboard soon-to-be-deployed vessels the sailing of which depends on men with their qualifications. Additionally, we should reformat the reserves to make continued deployments possible without unnecessary mustering and rigamarole.<\/p>\n

First, the hard numbers. When a sailor enlists, he signs up for eight years in the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) as an addendum to his active-duty contract (i.e., the timer for the inactive obligation starts counting down the second he’s sworn into the service). Additionally, a recruit often receives a “secret” security clearance that lasts for ten years; without the clearance, a sailor is essentially unable to serve on a ship. For simplicity’s sake, let’s assume neither of these numbers is adjustable. Whether a sailor has a four-year enlistment or extends it to six or eight, he has the inactive obligation and the benefit of a decade under a security clearance.<\/p>\n

It would benefit the Navy to keep sailors on retainer even after an active enlistment ends. If I had my druthers, the process would be as simple as the engineering officer getting the captain’s approval (a captain who needs to meet certain minimums for viability to deploy), then picking up his phone and asking his former sailors if they’d be willing to come back for a cruise. If a former sailor said yes, the JAG — a Navy lawyer — would send over a contract that reenlisted the refrigeration mechanic for nine months, with the understanding that the deployment could be extended. The sailor would report to an existing Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) and go through the normal medical lookover. He’d then be handed a ticket and jet off to meet the ship. After a successful deployment, the sailor would receive a completion bonus and return to whatever else he had going on in his life. (More practically, an anodyne call from the chief engineer urging a former sailor to report to MEPS to hear about an opportunity seems like a more OPSEC-friendly version, though lacking in dramatic satisfaction.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The National Review has the rest of the opinion piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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