scope:

Applicability.

This regulation applies to members of the Active Army, except general officers, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S Army Reserve who are serving on extended active duty, to include Soldiers in the Active Guard Reserve Program. It further applies to members of the Reserve Component ordered to active duty for full, total, or partial mobilization or via a Presidential Reserve Call-up.

Purpose

This regulation provides policy and guidance on-

a. Eligibility and selection criteria for overseas service in a permanent change of station (PCS) status under routine conditions as well as contingency operations and deployments.

b. Establishment of tour lengths for overseas areas.

c. Curtailment, voluntary and involuntary overseas tour extensions, and consecutive overseas tours (COTs) and inplace consecutive overseas tours (IPCOTs).

d. The Overseas Tour Extension Incentive Program (OTEIP).

e. Intra- and intertheater assignments.

f. Time-on-station (TOS) criterion.