Involuntary Foreign Service Tour Extension

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Involuntary Foreign Service Tour Extensions (IFSTE) is submitted by a soldier’s chain of command. Reasons include but are not limited to the following: In order to meet critical operational requirements, when a soldier is assigned to a unit which will deactivate or be reassigned, when a selected school date does not reasonably coincide with their Date Eligible for Return from Overseas (DEROS), completion of a military/foreign investigation and completion of administrative actions. Examples of administrative actions are: soldiers undergoing separation processing, MMRB, MEB, and/or PEB processing, compliance with host-country customs and regulations, or nonjudicial punishment, court-martial, and so on.[1]