I ran across this article/email on the SFTT website regarding new guidance from USARC G-1 on procedures for approving or disapproving Unqualified Resignations of Reserve Component Officers. For those not familiar with the term “unqualified resignation” in the Army sense, it is a resignation initiated by the individual officer for their own reasons, whatever they may be, like career, family, etc.... A qualified resignation is where the Army has a vested interest in removing you from the service. In addition to serving a tour in Iraq or Afghanistan you need to be free of stop loss and in a specialty currently above 50% authorized manning in your rank. That last little detail is bound to trip up a lot of captains trying to move on given how short the Army Reserve is on captains system wide (currently 59%) regardless of specialty. You have to wonder who's driving this train wreck. I may end up retiring yet.