I have a Reserve who rides with me once or twice a month, the guy is good to go and like you if he went full time he'd take a HUGE pay cut...he's married with kids, so, so much for sacrificing money...in my county we're all 'one man' units, myself, on a good night, there are 3 of us with 180 square miles to patrol...good company can never be beat, I've worked with several other Reserves and have no bitch about them but understand this could be an exception to the rule....Good Luck to you...and as far as the money goes for full time, if I wasn't retired military I'd be pretty hard pressed to make it on strictly a deputies salary...and I don't like 'off duty gigs' much...