Expert: John L - 9/6/2008

Question
I joined the Army Reserve in Oct of 2002.  Since then I have been actively going to drill and serving my country.  After basic and AIT I reported to my unit which was a rear detachment, the main body had been deployed.  i basically sat around until around fall of 2004.  When the unit returned we made plans for AT to Haiti.  I discovered then that my security clearance had been messed up and i couldn't go.  i went to PLDC in 2005 and submitted my packet and was denied due to not being MOSQ(MP require security clearance)  I was disgruntled, I spoke to my Unit Admin and submitted a packet, no word for 6 months, submitted another no word.  I then stopped caring and gave up, but still went to drill.  I graduated a police academy in the civilian world and focused on that.  My unit then got most of its personnel involuntarily transferred in November of 2007 to a company mobilizing, but not me.. I wasn't MOSQ so I stayed in the rear with the gear.  My work as a Baltimore Police Officer made it difficult to attend weekend drills so my supervisor at the Police Dept having a similar circumstance wrote  me a letter to go into IRR. So, I put in a hardship packet for the IRR and was denied.  After being denied I drilled until this months, September, to which  i assumed was my last drill.  I signed a 6 x 2 contact and Oct 1, 2008(joined Oct 2, 2002) is my 6 year anniversary.  My commander told me that the Battalion isn't accepting IRR packets and that I would have to continue drilling or face a General Discharge for not attending drill.  Is there anything I can do?  I cant get promoted, cant get deployed and get treated poorly in my unit.  I have no desire to drill, I did the time I was told i had to do.  

Thanks for any advise you can give me.

Answer
Makes no sense, if you signed a 6x2, you are automatically transferred to the IRR unless you are stop loss ofr deployment.  Demand a hearing and or call the IG, if you get no results, call your congressional office.  It's a contract for a reason.  I am sorry that your unit was ate up.  Thanks for serving, twice.  As a Soldier and as a police officer.