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Channel: Jon Cruz - VETS to CEOS
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what if I told you that you can run a
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full-time business you go to school or
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you could work in another full-time
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career all while still serving in the
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United States Air Force and this week
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I'm going to share with you just so you
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can do that in the Air Force Reserves
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I'm also gonna share the pros and cons
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and the different types of programs in
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the Air Force Reserves and what you can
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serve under if you're not familiar with
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the differences between the different
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components such as active-duty Air Force
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Reserves or the Air National Guard be
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sure to watch my previous video that I
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filmed discussing those three different
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types of components the main topic of
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this video will just be primarily on the
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Air Force Reserves and exactly what I'm
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doing when I transition out of active
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duty and for those of you that are
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interested in the space force be sure to
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stick around to the end of this video
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and I'm gonna share with you something
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really cool that we're releasing so now
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that you know what this video is about -
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the intro
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so what is the Air Force Reserves the
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Air Force Reserves is a part time
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component of the United States Air Force
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and it also can turn into a full time if
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you are on active duty orders the best
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thing about the Air Force Reserve
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especially if you're active duty is that
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allows you to continue serving your
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country and then it also gives you the
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opportunity to work in a civilian job or
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if you run your own business or if you
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want to go back to school full-time you
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can do it it's one of the biggest
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difference about being active duty and
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reserves it's gonna be your pay your
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benefits and obviously the amount of
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time you work I now I have discussed all
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of these differences between active duty
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reserves and Guard in the previous video
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and I'll link that against to the right
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side of this video if you're interested
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in watching that first but yeah those
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are the main differences between the
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active duty and the reserves if you're
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in the Air Force Reserves you're
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obviously not going to be working full
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time unless you are on active duty
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orders so of course your pay is gonna be
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a lot less than an active duty member
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but you'll still get to reap majority of
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the benefits to active duty members get
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what are the benefits of being in the
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reserves one of the biggest benefits in
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the Air Force Reserves that you now have
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is time for your family and also time
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for yourself if you want to start your
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own business you want to go to school or
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if you want to work another full time
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career as a civilian another benefit in
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the Air Force Reserves is that you get a
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hundred percent tuition just like an
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active duty member give four thousand
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five hundred dollars per fiscal year for
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your tuition just like active duty and
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you also get all of the on-the-job
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training that active-duty members get
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when you are reporting in for duty Air
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Force Reserve members are also entitled
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their GI bill once you have met the
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qualification period of how long you've
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been in and that's another benefit that
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you have the advantage of or you can
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pass it to your family member weekly as
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you're already getting your full tuition
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through the Air Force Reserve another
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benefit of the Air Force Reserves it is
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a supplemental income to your civilian
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job or business because it is only a
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part-time job and you're only getting
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paid for the days you work it's not
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gonna be a full-time income being in the
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Air Force Reserve so it's more of a
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supplemental income to your civilian
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income you can put that into anything if
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you want to put into stocks or savings
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or whatever whatever you want to do with
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that you also have access to all the
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base installations you have access to
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the BX the commissary you have access to
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low-cost TRICARE as well so you can
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still have medical and dental insurance
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covered for you and your family at
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cause I think something that's also so
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great about the reserves is the ability
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to network even more than what you were
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doing in active duty I say this because
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while you're doing your civilian job
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you're obviously making your connections
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your networks in that position and then
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when you come in for your duty there's
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so many other reservists that have
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civilian jobs that are reservists as
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well that could be in a variety of
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different fields or industries and
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that's a great opportunity to network
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with those individuals and you guys can
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collaborate together and if you need
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something that I think that's one of the
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greatest opportunities of the reserves
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is the networking opportunity if you
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want to be in a different career field
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you can cross train out of your career
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field much easier in the reserves
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compared to active duty what I'm trying
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to cross right into is combat camera
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combat camera essentially trains with
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all the combat oriented career fields
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their primary duty is to document and
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capture the mission that is going on
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with videography and photography what I
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love doing and they're also trained on
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ground combat skills and they're able to
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support the fight if they need to put
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that camera down and pick your weapon up
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a lot of my friends in the reserves has
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told me that it's been so much easier in
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the reserves to cross train to go TTY
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it's volunteer for deployments to go to
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courses that you've I always wanted to
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go to and these are the biggest reasons
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why I want to go into the reserves as
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well because of the opportunities you
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now have in the reserves you also have
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more freedom more flexibility and you're
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able to choose where you want to serve
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so for example right now I'm in the
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process of applying for vacancies
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throughout the world for an ima position
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and I'll discuss what the IMA program is
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later on in this video
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but what essentially does is that allows
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you to apply for any unit with a with a
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vacancy if they approve you you can move
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to that unit whereas active-duty you're
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stuck on a four or six year tour if
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you're overseas or if you're stateside
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you're stuck there for a different
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amount of time and that is why I think
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that's so cool about the reserves you
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you have more control over where you go
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and you just have more control on your
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side of things whereas active-duty it's
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more say okay you can put where you want
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to go but it's more of a like they call
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it a dream sheet because it's not always
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guaranteed
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that's one of the biggest things to as
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well that I like about the reserve and
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the Air Force Reserves you are also
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still entitled to a 20-year retirement
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plan with the DoD rolling out the
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blended retirement system that is
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another video topic I will
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the future I did opt into the blended
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retirement system because I did not
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think I was gonna do a full 20 years on
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active duty or the reserves at that time
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like I said I am in the blended
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Retirement System so when I hit my 20
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year mark I still will be able to retire
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from the Air Force Reserves but I won't
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have access to those funds until a later
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date and I'll discuss that in the next
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topic that's one of the cons of the Air
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Force Reserve another benefit about the
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Air Force Reserves is you have been
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prior active duty and you did leave
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active duty with service related medical
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issues and you were given a VA rating
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you are able to still have a VA
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disability paycheck a lot of people are
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confused with it saying that you can't
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have a VA paycheck and be in the
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reserves I want to dispel that myth
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immediately my in service recruiting
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we've verified this I've looked this up
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on the VA website as well you can still
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hack get a VA disability paycheck as
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long as you are not on active duty
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orders and as long as you are not on
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your regular duty for the reserve so for
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example with the IMA program do one
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month out of the year during the one
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month out of the year i cannot receive
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my VA disability paycheck so 11 out of
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the 12 months I can get my VA disability
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pay check but that month I'm doing my
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ima duty I'm not able to get a VA
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disability paycheck because it's double
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dipping essentially you're getting two
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paychecks from the government so that's
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something I'll post a link as well I'll
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cite my sources there as well for those
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of you that are questioning err don't
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believe me I'll post a link there below
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that you can look it up as well it shows
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the regulations and everything that is
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one of the coolest thing about the
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reserves that you can get your
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disability if you were prior active duty
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to so those are the majority of the pros
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that I have found about the Air Force
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Reserves and you might be wondering okay
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what are some of the cons of the Air
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Force Reserves the only two main cons
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that I've personally found is one is
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your retirement so with active duty like
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I said earlier if you do a full 20 years
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you get access to your pension to your
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retirement the day you retire at your 20
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year mark so say I did 20 years in
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active duty when I retire and get out
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everything's completed I get access to
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my full retirement paycheck every month
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whereas reserves you only get access to
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your retirement once you hit the age of
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60 years old now you can bring that time
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down if you are on active duty orders
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there's a whole different calculation
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how many days and months and years
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they subtract from your your total or if
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you've gone deployments and stuff it
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does bring that number down but you're
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still up in that high 5060 you know age
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limits and you can't access your funds
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itself whereas if you joined the Air
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Force at 18 years old like I did and I
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did a full 20 I'd be out at say 38 39 so
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that's one of the biggest cons I guess
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the grass is always greener on the side
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and isn't a double-edged sword yes I'm
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joining the reserves so that I can have
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more freedom flexibility and be able to
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focus on my business goals and do a new
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career that I'm ambitious about but at
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the same time you're kind of giving up
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that whole retirement at the age of 30
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to 40 years old average with everyone
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else that joined the 18 so that's one of
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the negatives about being in the
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reserves as the retirement age and
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having that access our paychecks second
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thing I guess that is kind of a con of
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the reserves
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I don't really it's not really a con to
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me because I mean you join the military
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to serve and fight for your country but
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I guess it would be titled a con is if
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you're a reservist you're obviously you
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have a full-time civilian career it
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might be running your business you can
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be in voluntarily recalled whether you
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like it or not even if you had your one
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month of tours scheduled for December
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you can still be involuntarily recalled
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if there's a war or if there's any
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conflict that managin chief ends up
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activating the reservists you will be
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brought into active duty and you will be
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serving an x amount of time I honestly
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can't tell you how long you would be on
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active duty orders it really depends on
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the situation but that I guess is one
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negative or con of being in the reserves
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that for me like I said I don't see it
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as a con because they're still are
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serving your country you're chose to
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still serve of course you're expected to
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fight and serve your country if you're
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if you're ever called upon so I don't
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really see that as a combat it's just
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listed on one of the cons but those are
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out that I really want to know what the
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real cons are so yeah those are the pros
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and cons of the Air Force Reserves then
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you might be wondering what are some of
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the programs under the Air Force
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Reserves that you can serve under so the
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first one I want to get into is the
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traditional reservist that is the
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traditional weekend warrior what people
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like to call it as it is kind of a funny
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term but it is kind of true you work one
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week in a month you've reported for duty
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one week in a month whatever you
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normally this would typically be a
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stateside assignment and you would do
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your training or duty everything
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training related or stuff you got to
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catch up on stay qualified on you do
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that during that timeframe and then you
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also have two weeks out of the year that
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you would also have to report in as well
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for an annual tour that is traditional
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service it's one week in a month think
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of it we can warrior and plus the two
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weeks and the next one is that I am a
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reserve program that's what I am doing
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right now great thing about the ima
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reserve program is instead of reporting
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in one weekend per month I'd rather
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serve the entire annual tour in one
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month out of the whole year that's the
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great thing about the IMA reserve
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program is that you're able to serve 39
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days consecutively so it's a little bit
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more than a month but you get to do it
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all in one time crunch instead of
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spreading it out and not everyone's job
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that they're gonna be in or business
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they're running won't give them the time
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flexibility great thing about the IME
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Reserve program it allows you to have
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more flexibility it's choose hey this is
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the month I want to have reporting for
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duty course upon agreement with your
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unit as well and we'll give you more of
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a window that okay I can expect every
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year this is the month that I have my
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tour my duty that I got a I got to
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commit to so makes it easier in my
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opinion if you're running a business or
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if you have another full-time career
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compare it to a traditional reservist
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where you got it going one weekend per
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month plus the two weeks out of the year
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the cool thing about the ima Reserve
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Program is that you can also be assigned
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to units overseas and not just stateside
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with the traditional Reserve Program you
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can only be a scientist a stateside
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assignment to my knowledge and to what
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my interest recruiter told me so that's
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a cool thing but the IMA program as well
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the third program under the Air Force
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Reserve is the Air Reserve technician
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program what this program is is you're
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essentially dual hadded so for example
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picture an IT specialist am an IT
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specialist I'm a GS employee and I'm
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doing IT full-time Monday to Friday I'm
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doing that and I'm also doing it as my
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reserve duty as a reservist during my
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one weekend every month plus my two
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weeks out of the year that's a quick
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breakdown of what the Air Reserve
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technician program is you're doing the
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same job in your full-time role as a GS
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employee but y'all staying as a
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reservist the fourth program is the PIR
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are you know how the military loves our
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acronyms the IRR stands for
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participating individual Ready Reserve
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Program
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this program is appoints only program
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and it's only for a specific career
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fields there are six career fields under
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the PIR our program that you can apply
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for the first one is the Civil Air
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Patrol reserved
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the second is the air force admissions
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liaison officer program the third is a
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chaplain service program the fourth is
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the Jag reinforcements designee program
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fifth is the medical program and the six
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is the ready reinforcements personnel
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sections that is the PIR or personal
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individual Ready Reserve program it's
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only available for six different career
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fields that you can apply under and
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those are all the different programs
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under the Air Force Reserve they can
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serve under so as you can see there's so
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many different programs in the Air Force
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Reserve that you can apply for and the
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sky's the limit on it so you have more
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opportunities in the Air Force Reserve
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and the purpose of this video is not to
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push people away from joining active
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duty or pulling people away that our
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active duty that want to go reserves
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it's more so to educate those that are
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not aware of what the reserves has to
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offer cuz I didn't even know the
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reserves had all this to offer and still
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I started looking into it on my way out
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oh yeah so to recap everything we went
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over the Air Force Reserve is a
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part-time component of the Air Force
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that you can serve under as a part-time
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role or even a full-time role if you are
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activated the Air Force Reserves has
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several benefits being for example 100%
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tuition assistance you still get your
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veterans assistance disability paycheck
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you get your access to the base the BX
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commissary low-cost health insurance
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dental insurance so plenty of benefits
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and then the different programs
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associated with the Air Force Reserve
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such as the traditional reservist
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program
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I am a reserve program error reserve
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technician program and the PIR our
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program so I hope this video is really
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clarified to you what the Air Force
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Reserve is and all of the pros and cons
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within the Air Force Reserve as well as
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the different programs associated with
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the Air Force Reserve so that way you
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have more options who apply for and not
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just be stuck with just the traditional
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reservist visits all that you would
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think that is in the reserves like I had
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originally thought if you found this
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