re: OT military veterans - what was your favorite duty station?

Yeah I put in for St. Pete. Heard nothing but good things about that area.

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ersonally wish we would do away with the AGR program (ARNG and USAR) and assign Active Component Soldiers to do similar duties with the Reserve Component.


Curious why you feel this way. I’m not an AGR, but I work with several. From an AF perspective the program seems to do a good job of keeping the best reservists around the unit who would normally only be in once or twice a month. People that would normally be at an airline job.

ETA: not butt hurt about your take on AGRs, just genuinely curious about why the alternative of having the AD supplement the guard and reserve is better.

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I can see both sides. Many AGRs are in the place for 20-30 years. This can be good (institutional knowledge) or bad (complacency, not exposed to new ideas/out of touch with the larger force). The right person (someone who takes ownership) in an AGR billet is a huge asset, unfortunately a lackluster troop gets an AGR position too often and fills the slot for decades.