FedCiv relocation and USERRA
Background: T32 m-day guard, federal civilian employee, hired out of an alternate work site 2022 and have been working remotely since without issue.
There are talks of forcibly relocating me to DC (at own expense, NOT covered by my agency). Not due to performance or anything other than the executive order around return to office.
I spoke to the JAG/TDS officers in my unit and several of them are of the opinion that because I was hired in my current location and continue to have military reservist obligations in my state/location, that forcibly relocating me at my own expense (for non-performance reasons, I.e. Administrative/not for cause relocation) to DC would violate USERRA by making it functionally impossible to attend drills and other duties in my state. I have a 90 day set of FTNGD-OS every year in FYQ4, if that matters, and the billet I'm in is one of our state's designated weather response/rapid mobilization billets.
Tl;Dr because I was hired on a remote/alternate work site basis while already in the guard, and my military service functionally if not explicitly precludes any relocation ability that far away, would/should I be protected by USERRA against an administrative/not for cause relocation to ~1000+ miles away?