Da Form 4836: Fill & Download for Free

As the Answer by George Avery already described, there are many variables involved.But, you should know that the National Guard doesn’t have an “IRR,” as in the Individual Ready Reserve, a subcategory of the Ready Reserve, which is a category of the Reserve Component of the US Armed Forces.The National Guard (the Army National Guard, at least, the Air National Guard doesn’t use it), does have a subcategory called the “Inactive National Guard” but it’s very small and only used for specialized purposes. Officers and warrant officers are not authorized to be members of the ING. Enlisted members of the ING remain in the National Guard, and must perform certain functions with their former NG units, do not serve in an active status, are not eligible for promotions or to earn further retirement credit, do retain military status, and are still available as mobilization assets for their state militia, albeit at a lower readiness tier than the members of the National Guard units, per par. 1–1(c) of National Guard Regulation 614–1, Inactive National Guard, dated 18 March 2010:[1][1][1][1]The ING is designed as an administrative category for Soldiers who cannot ship to Initial Entry Training (IET) for a period exceeding 120 days; who are in the training pipeline but pending discharge for failure to ship (Soldiers have a maximum of 24 months upon entering active status to complete IET); for active status Soldiers who are unable to perform their required duties for some limited time, and for Soldiers who are eligible to maintain a connection with the ARNG upon leaving active status.Most National Guardsmen who complete their 6-year contractual obligation to serve in a National Guard unit, or who are released for certain other reasons early (like for moving abroad, or joining a religious education program, etc.), are transferred from the National Guard to the Army Reserve, to join the IRR — meaning a transfer from the National Guard of the United States to the US Army Reserve’s IRR — per the provisions of Chapters 4, 5, and 7 of AR 140–10, Assignments, Attachments, Details, and Transfers.[2][2][2][2]But, some NG may request to remain in the NG, per par. 2–1 of NGR 614–1:(8) As an alternative to serving in the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) of the United States Army Reserve (USAR) in order to complete the second portion (two, four, or five years) of the 6x2, 4x4, or 3x5 enlistment option, or of another residual commitment to serve in the Ready Reserve of the Army, after an initial period of service on active status with ARNG. Soldiers must execute a DA Form 4836 for the remaining period.(9) Leaving active status and eligible for and desires to maintain a connection with the ARNG in inactive status by extending term of service to be placed in the ING instead of being discharged.The drawback to remaining in the ING instead of voluntarily transferring (or being involuntarily transferred) to the Army Reserve’s IRR, is that service in in the ING is “inactive status,” without possibility of promotion, reserve participation, or retirement credit, although ING service is creditable toward:Longevity for basic pay (although members of the ING…while actually in the ING which is a statutory “inactive status”…cannot actually receive military compensation), andMeeting the statutory and contractual service obligations of their enlistment contract.Membership in the ING is normally limited to 1 year, but members may be authorized to temporarily return to an active status — meaning temporarily they are transferred from the ING back to their TPU in a Selected Reserve status — to perform unit training with their NG unit (during which period they will be authorized pay and allowances and retirement credit) before returning to their ING status.As noted above, most members of the National Guard of the United States (which is a part of the Selected Reserve subcategory of the Ready Reserve, itself a category of the Reserve Component of the US Army), if they complete their standard contractual military service obligation (typically 6 years in a TPU status in the NG), or are otherwise released by proper authority (such as under the conditions noted in Chapters 4, 5, and 7 of AR 140–10), will be transferred from their State NG to the Army Reserve’s IRR.This includes, in most cases, any member who has “served under honorable conditions,” and their Commander has determined that they still have some amount of mobilization potential that makes keeping them to complete their 8-year Military Service Obligation contract more important than immediately and permanently discharging them completely off contract…See par. 4–12b(12) of AR 140–10 for an example of this determination by a Commander prior to transferring a member to the IRR:… whose service is characterized as under honorable conditions, when it has been determined the Soldier has potential for useful service under conditions of full mobilization.Clearly, this wording is designed to guide TPU commanders — whether NG or USAR — when deciding how to transfer/separate a member of their TPU command:The individual, even with some warts or glitches in their service, and even with a “general under honorable conditions” characterization of their TPU service, still has potential for useful service under conditions of mobilization…Or, they don’t, in which case the Commander will initiate procedures to fully discharge the member back to civilian life, with no further military status.The vast majority of SELRES members, whether NG or USAR, indeed of any Service, will complete their contractual MSO service, or otherwise be released early for a valid reason (dependency, hardship, education, enrollment in an officer program, etc.), and be transferred from their TPU to the USAR IRR.As noted above, a very few will petition, and be approved, for a transfer from their NG TPU to the NG ING…for a year, for very specific purposes, but the same decision matrix will guide the Commander in those cases: does the member leaving my TPU command still have potential for mobilization service? If so, the transfer to either the ING or IRR may be approved, if not, the Commander retains the member to pursue separation proceedings to permanently and completely terminate the member before they are transferred to the ING or IRR…”kicking the can down the road” is an unsatisfactory Commander’s decision, unworthy of any commander.Once this transfer to the USAR IRR is complete, the individual servicemember is no longer a member of their state militia, and thus is no longer in the dual-status of the National Guard: part state militia, part federal reserve. Instead, they have transferred — lock, stock, and barrel — to the federal reserves as part of the Army (or Air Force, as the case may be) Reserve.Even if the characterization of their previous NG service was “general under honorable conditions.”If their further service in the IRR (or ING…) causes their Commander to have to initiate separation proceedings (say for commission of a serious crime, or becoming incarcerated, or moving overseas permanently, or an officer losing their security clearance), that can also be done from the IRR (or ING), although it is more difficult using the mail than personal notifications of the adverse personnel actions that require due process before completion.BOTTOM-LINE: you can still be placed in the IRR, either voluntarily or involuntarily, as the case may be, to serve out the remainder of your voluntary 8-year Military Service Obligation, even after completing your 6-year contractual TPU/SELRES service obligation. Most such individuals quietly serve out the remainder of their 8-year MSO and then are discharged with a characterization of service that will be determined to be most appropriate for the entirety of the 8-year MSO, whether that might be “honorable” or “general under honorable conditions” may depend on how much you improve yourself, and are able to show to the Army HRC before that final decision that you are indeed worthy of a full honorable discharge from the IRR…talk it over with your unit career counselor, chain of command, and the administrative specialists at HRC who deal with these matters.Good luck.Footnotes[1] https://www.ngbpdc.ngb.army.mil/Portals/27/Publications/ngr/ngr%20614-1.pdf?ver=2018-09-07-082542-470[1] https://www.ngbpdc.ngb.army.mil/Portals/27/Publications/ngr/ngr%20614-1.pdf?ver=2018-09-07-082542-470[1] https://www.ngbpdc.ngb.army.mil/Portals/27/Publications/ngr/ngr%20614-1.pdf?ver=2018-09-07-082542-470[1] https://www.ngbpdc.ngb.army.mil/Portals/27/Publications/ngr/ngr%20614-1.pdf?ver=2018-09-07-082542-470[2] https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN8602_AR140_10_%20Final.pdf[2] https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN8602_AR140_10_%20Final.pdf[2] https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN8602_AR140_10_%20Final.pdf[2] https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN8602_AR140_10_%20Final.pdf