Board considers AGR officers for extended service - U.S. Army Reserve - Brief Article

Army Reserve Magazine, Summer, 2001

WASHINGTON--The Chief, Army Reserve, has directed that a board be conducted to consider eligible Active Guard Reserve (AGR) officers for extension beyond 20 years of active federal service (AFS).

By extending AGR officers beyond 20 years AFS, the Army Reserve will be able to take advantage of the talents and experience of officers who until now, for the most part, have had to leave the AGR Program upon reaching 20 years AFS. Members of the AGR Program and other full-time support soldiers and civilians are essential to the Army Reserve's ability to maintain its current high readiness levels and for increasing those levels even more.

Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Plewes has further directed that this board be held June 18-22, at the Department of the Army Secretariat (Reserve Component) in St. Louis, Mo.

This board will consider AGR officers with 18 or more years of AFS, as of June 1, 2001, for extension beyond 20 years AFS. The board will establish an Order of Merit List (OML), which will be forwarded to the Chief, Army Reserve, for final approval. All extensions will be based on the needs of the Army Reserve AGR Program.

Some 330 officers are eligible to apply for extension. Packets with detailed instructions and procedures for applying for extension were mailed to those eligible in March, which should allow sufficient time to complete and return the packets to the board.

(Lt. Col. Randy Pullen is with the Public Affairs and Liaison