United States Public Health Service Inactive Reserve

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps

• OFFICE OF SURGEON GENERAL
• RADM STEVEN GALSON ACTING SURGEON GENERAL
  OFFICE OF RESERVE AFFAIRS CAPT JAMES
  SAYERSDIRECTORLCDR DIMITRUS CULBREATHIRC
  OPERATIONAL MANAGERLCDR TIMOTHY JIGGENSIRC
  RECRUITMENT AND TRAININGLCDR JEFFERSON
  FREDYIRC/IHS LIAISON

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps

• Who is Eligible to Join the PHS Inactive Reserve
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• lt 20 years of extended active duty
• Direct Appointment (Direct Commission)
• Commissioned Officer Student Training and
  Extern Program (COSTEP)

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
Benefits of Serving in the PHS IRC

• Inactive Reserve time counts toward pay
• Training and Experience Date (TE)
  towards rank/grade
• Each day on active duty counts toward (social
  security) not retirement

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
Benefits of Serving in the PHS IRC

• Voluntary activation to do short/intermittent
  tours
• Officers indicate their availability for
  short/intermittent tours
• IRC Officers can keep their full- time
  positions, but can be part-time PHS Officers
  

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
Temporary Calls to active duty from the Inactive
Reserve are classified as (1) Short
or (2) Intermittent
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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
Short Tour

• IRC officers may be called to a Short Tour for
  a period of duty from 2 weeks - 120 days
• The maximum number of days an IRC officer may
  serve on active duty in a fiscal year is 240
  days.
• The maximum assignment is 120 days at a time
  with a break in duty for subsequent or following
  assignments, again, NTE 240 days total in a
  fiscal year.

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
Intermittent Tour

• Intermittent Tours are for recurrent periods
  that cannot exceed 100 days in any fiscal year
• Example An IRC dentist may be assigned to a
  specific patient treatment facility two,
  pre-negotiated days per week, but NTE 100 days
  in any fiscal year

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
Short Tours with the Department of Defense
When assigned per PHS personnel orders to the
Department of Defense (Army, Navy, Air Force,
Marines) or the U.S. Coast Guard, like their
general active duty counterparts, IRC officers
are subject to the rules and regulations of the
Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
Short Tour Benefits

• Commissary and Post/Base Exchange privileges
• Use of Military Welfare and Recreation (MWR)
  
  facilities on an as available to PHS basis
• Officers wear the PHS uniform
• Officers receive full healthcare benefits for
  gt30 day tours emergency coverage for lt30 day
  tours

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
Promotions on Recall to a Short Tour

• An IRC officer holds the highest temporary
  grade (T-Grade based on their Training and
  Experience Date when called to active duty for a
  Short Tour) for which they are eligible while on
  active duty for short and intermittent tours
• Upon return to Inactive status, the officer
  will revert back to the permanent grade (P-Grade)

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IRC Officers by Category(as of January 16, 2008)
Current Officer represents the number officers in
the IRC database Available officers are the
number of officers whose contact information is
current.
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• IRC Initiatives for PHS
• Recruitment
• - Hard to fill locations
• - No FTE ceiling
• - Intermittent Tour
• Direct Appointment (Direct Commission)
• - Part-time
• - Local/Expert
• Special IRC Teams to deploy as a unit
• - Deployment Surgical Team (DST)
• - Mental Health Response Team

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps

• Office of Reserve Affairs
• Develop and maintain IRC components or assets
• Coordinate the assignment IRC to support the
  missions of DHHS as well as non-DHHS departments
• Serve as Surgeon Generals principal advisor on
  activities related to the preparedness and
  activation of IRC

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United States Public Health Service Inactive
Reserve Corps
Need Further Information ? Contact LCDR
Jefferson Fredy jefferson.fredy_at_hhs.gov Office of
Reserve Affairs 5600 Fishers Lane, Room
18-66 Rockville, Maryland 301-443-3605