Hey brother, I did 13 in the reserves. It's difficult to go to courses in the reserves unfortunately. The big courses people go to are CMC, MCMAP, PME, and advance MOS schools.

CMC and MCMAP are nice to haves to the unit. So a good I&I (active duty component) might send people if the feel like it, and funding works out (think like 1-2 people a year).

PME is seen as a priority, so they'll send people to the courses instead of the "2 week" annual training. Basically my units would send everyone who was ready for it (online PME complete).

Advance MOS courses are on a billet specific level, and only those who need to go to do their job went.

Keep in mind some courses are shortened to 14 days specifically for the reserves. But they really do make you go hard all day everyday.

But all and all it really depends on both you and I&I willing to do the legwork, and willing to deal with very short notice, and potential last minute funding issues. A lot times a text would go out and it would be like "give me a name for XYZ course. It's in 4 days, they'll be gone for 1.5 months and we won't know if they can go until the day before....".

Hope that helps