Effective this month, Army Reserve officers will no longer compete for promotion against National
Guard officers. Full-time Army Reserve officers will compete for promotion only with other
full-timers. The new policy created three new competitive categories for officers previously
considered under the single Army Promotion List: a National Guard category; an Army Reserve
category for Active-Guard-Reserve officers, known as AGRs; and a category for all other Army
Reserve officers. The most significant change will be that Guard officers will compete only
against other Guard officers, said Col. Mark Patterson, Officer Division chief in the Directorate
of Military Personnel Management, G1. And Army Reserve Troop Program Unit officers, Individual
Mobilization Augmentees, and Individual Ready Reserve officers will not have to compete against
AGR officers.
