[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR100.6]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
 
PART 100_UNSATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE OF READY RESERVE OBLIGATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  100.6  Definitions.

    (a) Ready Reserve. Consists of the Selected Reserve and the 
Individual Ready Reserve. Members of both are subject to active duty as 
outlined in 10 U.S.C. 672 and 673.
    (b) Selected Reserve. Members of the Ready Reserve in training/pay 
categories A, B, C, F, M and P. These reservists are either members of 
units who participate regularly in drills and annual active duty for 
training, in annual field training in the case of the National Guard, or 
are on initial active duty for training; or they are individuals who 
participate in regular drills and annual active duty on the same

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basis as members of Reserve component units. Excluded from the Selected 
Reserve are Reserve component members who are:
    (1) Participating in annual active duty for training and not paid 
for attendance at regular drills (pay categories D and E), or awaiting, 
in a nonpay status, their initial active duty for training (pay category 
L).
    (2) Enrolled in officer training program (pay category J) members of 
the Individual Ready Reserve pool (pay category H), and reservists on 
extended active duty. (See 10 U.S.C. 268(b) 32 CFR part 102.)
    (3) Members of the Inactive Army National Guard.
    (c) Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). Members of the Ready Reserve not 
assigned to the Selected Reserve and not on active duty.
    (d) Unsatisfactory participation. A member of the Ready Reserve who 
fails to fulfill his/her obligation or agreement as a member of a unit 
of the Ready Reserve described in 10 U.S.C. 268(b), 270, 510, 511, 593, 
597, 651, 652, 672, 673, 673a, 673b, 685, and 1163. Or a member who 
fails to meet the standards as prescribed by the Military Departments 
concerned for attendance at training drills, attendance at active duty 
for training, training advancement, or performance of duty.
    (e) Reasonable commuting distance. The maximum distance a member of 
a Reserve component may travel involuntarily between residence and drill 
training site, in accordance with Sec.  100.5(b)(1). This distance may 
be within:
    (1) A 100-mile radius of the drill site that does not exceed a 
distance that can be traveled by automobile under average conditions of 
traffic, weather, and roads within 3 hours. This applies only to those 
units that normally conduct four drills on 2 consecutive days during the 
training year, if Government meals and quarters are provided at the base 
where the unit drills. (The provisions of this paragraph shall apply 
only to those individuals enlisting, reenlisting, or extending their 
enlistments after November 1, 1972.)
    (2) A 50-mile radius of the drill site that does not exceed a 
distance that can be traveled by automobile under average conditions of 
traffic, weather, and roads within a period of 1\1/2\ hours.
    (f) Standard-year. Personnel authorizations that describe the amount 
of work expected of one individual during a calendar or fiscal year.
    (g) Tentative characterization of service. An interim description of 
the quality of performance during a period which is less than the time 
required to earn an administrative discharge. The quality of performance 
shall be described as honorable, under honorable conditions, or under 
other than honorable conditions. If the quality is described as under 
honorable conditions a General Discharge certificate shall be provided 
upon discharge. If the quality is described as under other than 
honorable conditions a Discharge Under Other Than Honorable Conditions 
certificate shall be provided upon discharge.

[44 FR 51568, Sept. 4, 1979, as amended at 45 FR 48618, July 21, 1980]


     Enclosure--Suggested Format, Affidavit of Service by Mail

State of ----------
County of ----------
---------- (Name of individuals who mailed orders), being duly sworn, 
deposes and says:

    I am the ---------- (Job Title, e.g., Personnel Officer) of --------
-- (Unit) on the ------ day of ---------------- 19----, I mailed the 
original orders, a true copy of which is attached hereto, by Certified 
Mail (Return Receipt Requested) to ---------- (Name and address of 
member of orders) that being the last known address given to ---------- 
(Unit) as the one at which official mail would be received by or 
forwarded to the Reserve component member by depositing same in an 
official depository of the U.S. Postal Service at ---------- (Location 
of Postal Facility) in a securely wrapped and sealed U.S. Government 
official postal envelope with a Return Receipt Card (PS Form 3811) 
attached and the envelope addressed to the member at the address 
provided. A Receipt for Certified Mail (PS Form 3800) attesting to such 
action is attached.

---------- (Signature and Rank of Affiant)
Sworn and subscribed before me this ------ day of ----------------------
-- 19----.
---------- (Signature and Rank of Officer Administering Oath)

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