Specialist-4 to a fucking buck private.....Yet, when you get in an over staff slot, any former MOS will work..I did 71L in the reserves and new all the regs...So I could easily pull the strings...The OKARNG was no fun as a 27E....and the RA didn't need me as a 52D....I went from AR to RA and got busted down three grades...
Ouch, but the ranks work differently. You went from an e-6 to an E-3? Just guessing cause I knew two other people that happened to when they went RA in 80 because of the economy. They were Vietnam era combat vets and had to take orders from a dude who thought being a good soldier was wearing starched fatigues every day.