Can an Army Reserve unit force soldiers to come in on weekdays that are not on the battle assembly schedule (without official orders)?

SSG Dennis Mendoza — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 09:19:43 -0400

Response by SSG Dennis Mendoza made Sep 17 at 2017 9:22 AM

SSG Dennis Mendoza — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 09:22:13 -0400

The only document the unit is using is a excel spreadsheet and they're calling it orders.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 17 at 2017 10:25 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 10:25:30 -0400

Officially. No. If you're conducting Army business, you need to be on orders or at Drill. We both know this.

... That said. There's been a couple of these questions lately. The real question is, is this something that could have been done at BA, but wasn't because the Commander didn't want to keep everyone until midnight?

Is this something for your career, that you need done?

Many times in the Reserves it's better to work on your own time, theoretically unpaid, then deal with the hassles of doing it the... Right way.

Response by SP5 Peter Keane made Sep 17 at 2017 1:09 PM

SP5 Peter Keane — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 13:09:34 -0400

If you joined the Reserves for an extra payday, you joined for the wrong reason.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 17 at 2017 3:41 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:41:22 -0400

Negative, not without some sort of documentation in place to get you paid. As such, you would either have to be on your BTA weekend, on official orders (with an actual orders #), or on RST status. The one loophole is that you can come into your Reserve Center and work with RMA funds, which just needs a 1380 filled out and processed for pay. But, simply being told that your name is on a spreadsheet and that spreadsheet is being used as orders is a NO GO and they can go kick bricks.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 17 at 2017 7:37 PM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 19:37:37 -0400

Why don't you just move out and do the work?

Response by PFC Caleb Young made Sep 21 at 2017 12:10 PM

PFC Caleb Young — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:10:30 -0400

It isnt right but i cant say some of my buddies havent complained of the same. Usually its because something didnt get passed down the chain and needs dealt with before the next drill date.