LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. –
Three hundred Airmen from the Air Force's Individual Ready Reserve reported here July 29 and 30 for an IRR muster at the base theater.
According to Capt. Elizabeth Cramer, the 633rd Air Base Wing's IRR muster project officer, the muster took place over two days, with 140 Airmen reporting July 29 and 160 Airmen reporting July 30. The "ready reservists" performed medical screenings, received Veterans Affair's briefings and spoke to Air Force Reserve recruiters on hand.
"The Air Reserve Personnel Center issued orders 90 days in advance to all IRR Airmen within 150 miles of the base to report here for the muster," she said. "It's the Air Force's way of ensuring our IRR is ready to go in case they are called back to service."
The IRR Muster Program, created and maintained by the Air Reserve Personnel Center, exists to ensure the Air Force can "reach out and touch" members of the IRR population when called upon to do so. Enlisted Airmen of the IRR are bound to service based on their initial enlistment obligation of eight years, regardless of their active duty service tenure, while officers must report until they voluntarily resign their commission.
The program's primary objectives are to provide overall structure to gather and maintain IRR Airmen contact and physical condition information, increasing efficiency of the activation process for total or full mobilization. Specifically, the muster program strives to enhance readiness, boost combat capability, streamline procedures and improve system support to ensure the nation always has a warrior bank of mission ready guardsmen and reservists for mobilization and Air Force augmentation when needed.