well these days they are calling you if you are in reserve too.....so it would have been better if you had sign the contract for 6 yrs active and 2yrs inactive reserve doesnt mean like reserve anymore....and you can be called as many time as they want you to serve outside US...my brother served for 15 months in iraq on 2002 and now he is going again for 12 months.......and i dont know much about MAVNI but what i heard is one guy from Nepal got back from BCT after he heard that they were going to be shipped to afghanistan directly after BCT without going for AIT.......the US army is really outnumbered these days