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[Note from MOAA: The article below was first published in 2017. Click here to read an update on reserve component duty condition reform]

Serving in the Guard means you serve two bosses: the governor and the president. Keeping score of your earned benefits under the two bosses can be confusing.

Federal authority over servicemembers falls under Championship ten of the U.South. Lawmaking. These laws apply to active duty, reservists, and Baby-sit members who are ordered to federal-level agile duty for federal-level missions. Funding comes from the federal government. The president is the dominate.

Federal authorization over National Guard members falls under Title 32 of the U.Southward. Code. This is considered federal active duty for specific land missions and total-time Baby-sit positions. This type of state-level activation is guided by country laws and policies, but information technology is funded past the federal government after blessing from the president. This typically happens with big-scale, land-related missions: major natural disasters, for case. The governor is the dominate fifty-fifty though the state mission is sanctioned and funded past the federal authorities.

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The confusion sets in when y'all are non activated under Title ten or 32 merely yous are called up for a land-level mission past the governor specifically under state authority and land funding. This is the situation when your governor utilizes the Guard purely inside the jurisdiction of a state-specific, country-managed mission, such as local control over a limited civil disturbance. We'll call this "state phone call upward" for purposes of this article.

Active duty members of the National Baby-sit, whether activated under Title x or 32 (in many cases for Title 32) receive the same benefits and service credit as federal agile duty servicemembers — technically, you are a federal employee, so to speak. You receive all the benefits associated with holding an active duty ID card: education, get out, base privileges, and health care for you lot and your family while activated.

For those on state telephone call up, y'all receive pay, benefits, and retirement credit co-ordinate to your state'southward employment laws, policies, and programs. Federal laws, policies, and money do not employ. You lot are a land employee.

To retire from the Guard with federal service benefits, yous must earn a minimum of twenty "skillful years" of federal service credit. A "practiced yr" is a minimum of fifty service points. One time you earn 20 creditable years of service, you can retire to the grayness zone and await pay and benefits at historic period 60. If you don't qualify for federal service retirement, you must qualify for your state'southward retirement program.

Eligibility for VA benefits requires federal active service, Title ten or 32.

Know your duty condition, know the difference between your state and federal benefit programs, continue your orders, and closely track your service points.

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