What is the name of your state? GA
What can we do?
My fiance served 14 months in Iraq, and got back in Feb 2005. He was put on IRR (or IW - whatever they're calling it now) and his Army contract is up in late 2009. He was served with orders to go BACK to the sandbox in December 06, with a report date of 14Jan07. We were unaware that he should have just ignored it all, and he filed for a Delay/Exemption. They gave him a delay (due to an ongoing divorce case and custody battle), and now he has new orders for a 3Jun07 report date. He's faced with a dilemma: Go back and risk losing his sanity - or worse, risk death - fighting for a cause he no longer believes in? Or does he ignore his new orders and just not report, but then risk going to jail? He absolutely does not want to go back to war (obviously I don't want him to either, nor do our families), but we don't want him to lose his job or have jailtime mucking up his permanent record. He's also just now getting frequent visitation with his 2 yr old daughter (after not being able to see her for a year due to the crappy court system where his ex-wife lives), so he wants to be able to see her - not have to be out of her life even further.
Can anyone give us some insight? Has anyone on IRR actually been put in jail for not showing up recently? Or is he just looking at a possible OTH discharge? If it's the latter, we're not too worried about it at all - as he has a good job and will receive plenty of benefits from it.
Anyone have any advice?
What can we do?
My fiance served 14 months in Iraq, and got back in Feb 2005. He was put on IRR (or IW - whatever they're calling it now) and his Army contract is up in late 2009. He was served with orders to go BACK to the sandbox in December 06, with a report date of 14Jan07. We were unaware that he should have just ignored it all, and he filed for a Delay/Exemption. They gave him a delay (due to an ongoing divorce case and custody battle), and now he has new orders for a 3Jun07 report date. He's faced with a dilemma: Go back and risk losing his sanity - or worse, risk death - fighting for a cause he no longer believes in? Or does he ignore his new orders and just not report, but then risk going to jail? He absolutely does not want to go back to war (obviously I don't want him to either, nor do our families), but we don't want him to lose his job or have jailtime mucking up his permanent record. He's also just now getting frequent visitation with his 2 yr old daughter (after not being able to see her for a year due to the crappy court system where his ex-wife lives), so he wants to be able to see her - not have to be out of her life even further.
Can anyone give us some insight? Has anyone on IRR actually been put in jail for not showing up recently? Or is he just looking at a possible OTH discharge? If it's the latter, we're not too worried about it at all - as he has a good job and will receive plenty of benefits from it.
Anyone have any advice?