Spot-on, Rob. The other nasty bit is (in my case) that in the event of hostilities, you could be called back up until you were 55 years old. If I remember correctly, the "Big Andrew" is the same?
Thanks again, Jim , for an interesting point .
You learn a lot on this website on other forms of Naval Life !
I don't know if there were any age limits on being called up in the USN Inactive Ready Reserve.
I do remember, just before I got my "separation" ( back then you didn't get your discharge until completion of 8 years - 8 years active duty or 4 years active duty plus 4 years in an active reserve unit or Inactive ready reserve status)
I do remember some persons being called up from the reserves "to replace those of us being "separated."
I was also the Senior Petty Officer in charge of the "O-E Division " ( Electronic Technicians in Operations Department, Electronics ) during the last 6 months of my active duty. We had a rapid turn-over each year......Zero re-enlistments.
Another little quirk in the USN at that time.
The ET ratings were first in the Engineering Department as the "E-R Division" but later changed to " O-E Division" in the Operations Department.
In closing this with one more bit of trivia.:
In the United States Army a "Division" is a very large number of soldiers.
In the United States Navy a "Division " is a very small number of sailors.
We never had more than 15 in our group which included both rated and non-rated personnel.
P.S. And Korea was my baptism.