CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES RESEARCH MEMORANDUM

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Subject: CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES RESEARCH MEMORANDUM                   

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Folder Title: VARIOUS NAVAL MESSAGES FOLDER 11                                                                

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              Personnel Policy

                   Shortly after the recall was announced, OPNAV promulgated policy
              for delays in reporting and granting exemptions, which was based on
              guidance issued by the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Force Management
              and Personnel. Initially, SEIRES personnel were required to report
              within 24 hours of notification. Over time, the authorized period
              between notification and reporting was increased to 15 days. In addi-
              tion, SELRES personnel could request a 7-day delay from a board convened
              by the cognizant reserve activity. The board could also recommend that
              an individual receive a 30-day delay from COMNAVRESFOR, or a 60-day
              delay from COMNAVMILPERSCOM. The Navy, following DOD guidance, granted
              exemptions for medical, educational, judicial, and personal reasons.

                   The limited nature of the call-up allowed training pipelines for
              reserve personnel to continue. The Navy, following DOD guidance,
              exempted SELRES personnel in selected medical training programs from the
              recall. Residents in anesthesia, orthopedics, and surgical training
              programs (including general surgery, neurosurgery, colo-rectal, cardio-
              thoracic, pediatric, peripheral-vascular and plastic surgery) were not
              considered for recall. Nurses in anesthesia, operating room, medical-
              surgical, emergency-trauma, psychiatry, or critical-care training pro-
              grams were also excluded, as were all hospital corpsman in the Reserve
              Allied Medical Program (RAMP). (The RAMP program is described in more
              detail in appendix A.) Other residents, while not specifically exempt,
              were not recalled because they were not needed as general medical offi-
              cers (CMOs), the billet for which they were qualified.

              The demands for medical personnel in theater and to backfill CONUS
              MTFs during the second phase necessitated additional personnel policy
              modifications. First, BUMED announced the requirement to recall medical
              SELRES personnel without regard to the reserve program to which they are
              assigned. After "fencing" reservists to staff three reserve fleet hos-
              pitals, the remaining Program-46 personnel were made available to meet
              any operational requirement. Second, the Navy also chose to use the
              "stop-loss" provision available to the services under Title 10 U.S. Code
              673c. This provision permits the Navy and other military departments to
              halt the normal separations of personnel during the recall of reserves.
              Following SECDEF guidance, the Navy applied the provision only to main-
              tain inventories of essential personnel. Third, in mid January, BUMED
              announced that SEIRES personnel recalled to backfill at CONUS MTFs would
              be considered along with their active-duty counterparts for augmentation
              of deployed units.

                   The first stop-loss order, issued on 3 December, affected Navy per-
              sonnel assigned to Marine Corps units with effective dates of separation
              or retirement on or after 1 January 1991. On 13 December, the Navy
              issued an additional stop-loss order that affected medical, nurse, and
              dental corps officers, selected specialists within the medical service
              corps, and hospital corpsman, with an effective date of separation or
              retirement on or after 2 January 1991. The stop-loss actions also


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