Originally Posted by
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Regular officers cannot be let go in a RIF (reduction in force). Only Reserve officers can.
Academy grads and ROTC DG's are given regular commisions. The rest are Reserve commisions. Usually after 5 or so years, your regular comission will be upgraded to regular.
Actually regular officers were booted in the early 90's, although we all thought that could not happen. It was clinton's idea, and I think some of them sued the government.
I'm also 99% certain that academy grads are no longer given regular commissions...they have to augment like everyone else. This changed about ten years ago. Not sure about ROTC, but I assume they are in the same boat.