Requesting Waiver of Reserve Service

[beefybayonet]

Hopefully someone from the Admin/HR empire can confirm this for me.

I need to get a waiver, releasing me from any obligation for reserve service after leaving at my 38/16 point, as I'm joining the RAAF and I need to be free from any commitment to another armed force.

I wrote to the Reserve Forces Manning Cell at Air Command, requesting a waiver, as I believed that they deal with this sort of thing. That was a month ago and as yet I haven't received a reply.

Before I go chasing around and trying to resolve this, can anybody 'in the know' confirm that the RFMC is the right place to start, or, in this JPA era, is it somebody/somewhere else entirely?

Thanks in advance.

[taxydual]

Piece of p1ss. If called up, don't go.

I read a MoD paper (admittedly, some two or three years ago) that admitted they would only expect some 40% of reservists to actually 'rally to the colours' if called. So much so that they 'accepted' this figure and planned around it.

I understand where you are coming from though. Honour of committment and self respect.

Pleased to see it's still alive.

Regards.

[Duncan D'Sorderlee]

Have you spoken to your DO at Manning?

I'd send him/her an e-mail telling them your intentions and ask them to release you. The only problem is, I supose, if the RAAF require confirmation.

Good luck and enjoy Oz!

Duncs

[scarecrow450]

They'll just forget about you, did with me after 12yrs and due to do 6 in reserve, when rang up to confirm it they just said 'oh, err, your'e not on the reserve list' bargin then !!

[Scribbly]

Just give them and everso slightly incorrect forwarding address (ahem). The call up letter will never find you.
Don't tell them I told you this.....

[Not Long Here]

On joining the RNZAF I had to show a document releasing me from my UK Reserve requirement. I requested this, and received it, from my Desk Officer at what was then PMC. Don't know what its called these days!

[D-IFF_ident]

Not Long is right - joining a foreign military 'automatically' exempts you from reserve service. Deskie is the man to ask for a note. Tanya can tell you what the RAAF accept too.

[beefybayonet]

Thanks for the replies. I'll get in touch with my old Desk Officer. I suspect that the reason I haven't received a reply could be that my request may have been forwarded from RFMC to the Desk Officer for action and it's still working it's way through the system.

[Stuntmole]

Beefy,

I've just been through the exact same process (fly to Oz on 30 Jun destined for Willietown). You need to speak to the Reserves team at HQ Air on 95221-7624 - I don't want to post names and e-mail addresses here. I e-mailed the WO there stating my intentions and included a copy of my posting/appointment message; he e-mailed me a letter of waiver the same day and Tanya was more than happy.

Good luck for the move, see you Down Under.

SM

[pigsinspace]

Come and find me!!

[Melchett01]

Didn't even realise / remember that there was a reserve service commitment post 38/16 point. I thought it was SSCs and leaving early that attracted this sort of commitment.

[ShyTorque]

As I understand the rules, having left at my 38/16 point, my own reserve commitment doesn't end until the age of 55.

They've still got to find me though; they couldn't find my whereabouts in about 1996.

[Charlie Luncher]

Release me

PMA or whatever it is called today will give you a letter "discharging" you from your reserve commitment due to Joining the RAAF, Desk O is the best place to start.
Charlie sends

[beefybayonet]

Thanks for all the advice. I rang RFMC today to chase up my waiver. Found out it was actioned a couple of weeks ago, I just haven't received the notification yet. Should all be sorted on Monday.