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DoD-commissioned report seeks to overhaul confusing reserve duty status system

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More than 30 different duty statuses under which National Guard members and reservists can be called to service could be consolidated into just four categories, a new Defense Department-commissioned report found.  Unlike active-duty troops who remain in one status, reservists and National Guard members move between multiple duty statuses depending on the type of service they perform. Over time, the system has grown to include more than 30 separate statutes scattered across about 20 different titles of federal law, creating inequities in pay and benefits and frequent administrative delays when…

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Five years after congressional report, national service recommendations face test

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A bipartisan congressional commission released its recommendations to strengthen all forms of service to meet the country’s needs just as COVID shut down the country in 2020. Now, five years later, Congress received an update on progress and unfinished business. Federal News Network’s Terry Gerton spoke with Dr. Joe Heck, the former chair of the Commission on the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to get his take on how times have changed and why his recommendations still matter. Interview transcript: Joe…

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