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You will sacrifice time away from your family on a lot of weekends, time away from friends and hobbies, time away from your professional career, which may be hurt due to your obligations on weekends and evenings to the military. Basically, you should expect that every element of your life will...

Sorry accidentally posted on the wrong forum.

Yeah, pretty much exactly that. Bit of a higher level now. Honestly the most heart wrenching part is just trying to create training opportunities for good soldiers - and we have a lot of them. Opportunities for reserves is the best I've seen it since I got in but even then there barely seems to...

7 years later and I found this post that I had written when I was still a Jr Captain and I stand by my statements big time. I don't even know what incentives you'd offer a jr infantry officer these days in the reserves, especially if you aren't right next to a brigade or division hq.

I would also like to commend Chanada for his comments. I am startled by the negative responses posted on this forum for what is a positive article. There are a lot of capable soldiers in the reserves, tour veterans or not, who are having considerable difficulty finding meaningful (as in...

I thought I'd chime in here because this is a fair question and I think it has been answered more optimistically than is realistic. As an infantry platoon commander in the reserves, you will receive an initial amount of training that will allow you to meet a minimum standard equal to the reg...