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United States Navy Reserve

The United States Navy Reserve (USNR), known as the United States Naval Reserve from 1915 to 2005,[1] is the Reserve Component (RC) of the United States Navy. Members of the Navy Reserve, called Reservists, are categorized as being in either the Selected Reserve (SELRES), the Training and Administration of the Reserve (TAR), the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), or the Retired Reserve.

United States Navy Reserve

3 March 1915 (1915-03-03) (as the Naval Reserve Force)
2005 (as the U.S. Navy Reserve)

 United States

Reserve military component

59,152 personnel

"Ready Now, Anytime, Anywhere"

Blue and gold   

"The Naval Reserve March" Play

Naval Officer entry and service[edit]

The vast majority of commissioned officers in the Navy Reserve, both SELRES and TAR, are initially trained in and accessed from the Regular Navy following four to over ten years of active duty service. Commissioning sources for these officers are the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), Naval ROTC (NROTC), Naval Officer Candidate School (OCS), or the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA). Prior to its disestablishment, many of the Navy Reserve's Naval Aviators, Naval Flight Officers, Air Intelligence Officers, and Aircraft Maintenance Duty Officers were also commissioned via Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS), to include its Aviation Reserve Officer Candidate (AVROC) and Naval Aviation Candidate (NAVCAD) sub-programs. A small cohort previously commissioned via officer accession programs of another U.S. military service will also occasionally enter the Navy Reserve via interservice transfer.


Those officers who are Unrestricted Line (URL) officers will have typically attained a warfare qualification as a Naval Aviator, Naval Flight Officer, Surface Warfare Officer, Submarine Warfare Officer, Special Warfare (i.e., Sea, Air Land (SEAL)) Officer, or Special Operations (EOD Diver) through the same training and qualification process as their active duty counterparts. Most Restricted Line and Staff Corps officers exiting the Regular Navy for the Navy Reserve will have also completed training on active duty associated with their respective designators and specialties.


Another commissioned officer program unique to the Navy Reserve is the Direct Commissioned Officer (DCO) program. DCO is typically limited to Restricted Line specialties such as Intelligence, Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering Duty, or Public Affairs, or in Staff Corps roles as Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Medical Service Corps, Nurse Corps, Supply Corps, Civil Engineering Corps, Judge Advocate General Corps, or Chaplain Corps. These officers will typically have either (a) prior active duty enlisted service, (b) non-prior active duty enlisted service as a direct entry into the Reserve, or (c) no prior active military service. However, their educational (undergraduate and often postgraduate/terminal degree) and professional credentials will offset their either limited, or lack of, prior military service. These officers, in an already-commissioned status, will attend a 5-week Officer Development School on active duty orders at the Navy's OCS campus at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island. In very rare instances, these officers, mostly from the Engineering Duty and Aeronautical Engineering Duty designators, may apply for orders to extended active duty and be permitted to apply for flight training to become Naval Aviators or Naval Flight Officers, or to apply for training to become Surface Warfare Officers or Submarine Warfare Officers, and integrate into the Regular Navy.

Under a system implemented in 2004 known as TRICARE Reserve Select, drilling reservists will pay $47.90 a month for self-only coverage, or $210.83 a month for self and family coverage. This replaces the complex qualification rules previously in place for Reservists receiving TRICARE coverage. With the new rule, the only requirement is being in a SELRES status, meaning SELRES Reservist drills a minimum of two days (typically one weekend) each month.

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United States Military Reserve

United States National Guard

Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center Los Angeles

Winkler, David (2014). . Washington, D.C.: Navy Reserve Centennial Book Committee. ISBN 9780692327654.

Ready Then, Ready Now, Ready Always: More than a Century of Service by Citizen-Sailors

Today's Military Navy Reserve

The U.S. Uniformed Services Blended Retirement System - Reserve Component

Navy Reserve Recruiting

Archived 13 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine

Navy Reserve Official Site

Navy Personnel Command

United States Merchant Marine Academy

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR)

Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Reserve Affairs

TRICARE

Veterans Affairs

Thrift Savings Plan

Montgomery G.I. Bill

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act

(The Illustrated American, 8 August 1891 article describing the state of the Naval Reserve at the time and first New York drill with Navy.)

"The Naval Reserve Drill"