The Reserve Affairs Personnel Programming and Budgeting (RAP-3) is responsible for the coordination of pay & allowances fiscal requirements between HQMC Programs and Resources (P&R); Manpower and Reserve Affairs (M&RA); Plans, Policies, and Operations (PP&O); Marine Forces Command (MFC); and Marines Forces Reserve (MFR) to ensure the money needed to fund the Reserve Component is in the President’s Budget. RAP-3 is comprised of the Fiscal section and IMA Section.
Fiscal Program Objective Memorandum (POM) Development – Advocates Reserve issues during POM development and budget submission. – Manages the RPMC account during the planning, programming, and budgeting stages of the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process. RPMC Budget Management – Provides budget impact analysis of legislative proposals and congressional actions. – Provides support to P&R’s Military Personnel Branch (RFM) during budget estimate formulation, submission, and review. – Monitors, conducts analysis, and provides recommendations in support of RPMC budget execution to include fund reprogramming and redistribution actions. – Approves requests for additional/extended periods of annual training. IMA
– Serves as the executive agent for IMA Program, providing policy and oversight. – Coordinates billet alignment, manning, and funding with MARFORs and OpGroups. – Manages Authorized Manning (AM) and billet inventories in IDMS.
The mission of the IMA Program is to augment and reinforce Active Component (AC) staffs of the Marine Corps, Department of Defense (DoD) entities, and other U.S. Government departments or agencies having IMA structure on their Tables of Organization (T/O) with pre-trained and qualified members of the Selected Reserve. IMAs are trained individuals pre-assigned to billets that must be filled to support mobilization (pre-and/or post mobilization) requirements, contingency operations, operations other than war, or other specialized or technical requirements.
- Cancellation of MARADMIN 214/19 - Advertised IMA billets are authorized to DAP or PSR join into and updated weekly: (IMA BILLETS)
- (Example) IMA Inter-Unit Transfer Requests/Extension Request - (Example) IMA Volunteer Transfer to the IRR. - (Example) IMA OpGroup Appointment Letter. - (Example) IMA OpSponsor Endorsement for PSR/DAP joins. - (Example) IMA Exception to policy (ETP) waiver. - (Example) IMA Involuntary transfer to IRR. - (Example) IMA Billet MOS/Grade waiver. - (Example) IMA Retroactive drill request.
- MCO 1001.62C (IMA Order) - MCO 1001R.1L W CH 1 (MCRAMM) - MCO 3061.1 (TFMDP) - DoDI 1235.11 (IMA) - IMA Program Handbook (v3.1) - RTAMMS User Manual - BIC Assignment Policy (2024) - Standardized MARFORRES Administrative Readiness Tool
- MARADMIN 005/24 (FY25 Enlisted to WO Regular Selection Board) - MARADMIN 336/23 (Reserve Telecommute Policy) - MARADMIN 178/24 (Reserve Telecommute Policy Update) - MARADMIN 686/22 (IMA Direct Affiliation Program “DAP”) - MARADMIN 395/23 (Direct Affiliation Program “DAP”) - MARADMIN 193/22 (IDT Travel Reimbursement) - MARADMIN 147/23 (Off-Site IDT Policy)
- RTAMMS DD577
- IMA Overview - OpSponsor Roles and Responsibilities - RMED Brief - TFSD Brief - MFR IPAC IMA Brief - MCRC PSR Brief
- IMA OpGroup Managers - IMA POC and Billets (updated 20250130) - MFR IPAC - MFR_CSC@USMC.MIL (signed ITU order submit to CSC and EPAR via MOL) - POC and EPAR Information
- Prior Service Recruiting (PSR) Website - Direct Affiliation Program
Section E-mail: smb_rap@usmc.mil Reserve Affairs Policy (RAP-1) 3280 Russell Road Quantico, VA 22134-5103
Phone: (703) 784-4106 DSN: 278-4106 Reserve Affairs Plans (RAP-2) 3280 Russell Road Quantico, VA 22134-5103
Phone: (703) 784-9879 DSN: 278-9879 Reserve Affairs Programming (RAP-3) 3280 Russell Road Quantico, VA 22134-5103
Phone: (703) 432-9066 DSN: 278-9066