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Purpose

This regulation provides policy and guidance on the 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. It also provides guidance on the establishment of tour lengths for overseas areas, and the curtailment, voluntary and involuntary foreign service tour extensions (IFSTE); consecutive overseas tours (COTs) and in-place consecutive overseas tours (IPCOTs); the Overseas Tour Extension Incentive Program (OTEIP); intra- and intertheater assignments; and also time-on-station (TOS) criterion

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, unless otherwise stated. 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.