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Navy Reserve Full Time Support (FTS) verses Active Duty

I am interested in learning the difference between Navy Reserve Full Time Support (FTS) verses Active Duty. Any assistance or guidance is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Comment by ebigirl on July 12, 2012 at 5:50pm: A very good question. There is a group for Navy Reserve Moms. I believe the Reserve FTS is what Reserve Sailors are called when they volunteer to deploy. Active Duty is just that. They are full time Sailors assigned to where ever they are needed.

My son is a Reserve with the Seabee's. He does his once a month weekend drills with the Marines at Joint Base Lewis McChord (an Army and Air Force combined base) in Tacoma WA. When he enlisted, his recruiter told him to sign up for the Reserves because he would get into bootcamp faster, and then could switch to Full-Time Active Duty after bootcamp. This was a total lie...he will NEVER be able to go FT Active Duty.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 12, 2012 at 9:16pm: FTS - Full Time Support (formerly TAR = Training and Administration of the Reserve).

Here is a post I did on that once: Full-Time Support –These are designated Reservists who perform full-time Active Duty service that relates to the training and administration of the Navy Reserve program. They may be assigned to shore activities and commands or operational units. They typically are not reassigned to different locations as often as those on regular Active Duty. And they receive the same pay, allowances and benefits as Active Duty members.

Here is link to the about.com page about that and the ratings that are FTS:

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/guardandreserve/a/fts.htm

Also, this is from Wikipedia:
FTS, previously known as TAR (Training and Administration of the Reserve) serve in uniform all year round and provide administrative support to SELRES and operational support for the Navy. They are full-time career active duty personnel, but reside in the Reserve Component (RC), and perform a role similar to Active Guard and Reserve (AGR), Air Reserve Technician (ART) and Army Reserve Technician in the AirForce Reserve Command, the Air National Guard, the U.S. Army Reserve and the Army National Guard. Here is a link to the Official Navy Reserve site on the different kinds of reservists (SELRES, IRR and FTS. Also Retired Reserves):

http://www.navyreserve.com/about/structure.html

Comment by ebigirl on July 12, 2012 at 9:53pm: Thanks for the links and explanations FTLW! It is very much appreciated.