i could be wrong but i think this is just for 11-B's and no special training/A-School, it's just six months training and a year behind the trigger...
Posted on 05/21/2005 9:51:16 AM PDT by chudogg
Edited on 05/21/2005 9:59:24 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
USA Today is headline/link only.
"I second that .. I don't really care whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, USCG, for combat, logistic, support, engineer, or whatever. If they are willing to accept a fit 39 y/o, I am up for it. :) "
Sounds like you should be knocking on your Marine Corps. recruiting door. This comment is not negative in any respect.
The BrG boss man I worked for at CENTCOM went OCS when he was a PFC in the Army. He is now a Brigadier and I believe he is in line to get his 2nd star next year (I think).....
"They go to boot camp in the summer between Junior and Senior. They are then put in the inactive reserves and return home to finish your Senior year of High School."
Now that is a great program! Sort of get em ready for the 11th week "crucible". Hope your nephew makes it through ok. I am sure you shall have a tear or two when you see him pin on his Anchor/Globe/Eagle pin on his top, as he stands in rank at the graduation ceremony. By the time the final Friday ceremony is complete, hearing Semper Fi, you shall weep.
i could be wrong but i think this is just for 11-B's and no special training/A-School, it's just six months training and a year behind the trigger...
Sad, there is really so much competence and proffesionalism in all our branches. Then we read about when things do not go quite right. Perhaps it is time for your nephew to look into the Marine Corps.. With his smarts he probably could fall into a MOS in something that could keep him busy for a few years. I don't think the Marines have the option to be screwing around due to their smaller size. If you qualify they squeeze you in.
You could be right. I have read that recruiting has been missing their mark nation-wide, but I'm sure some of the "crisis" is media-fabricated. ;)
it probably is....
my mother runs a small town newspaper and she gets to take pictures of or gets lists of those who have enlisted from their town and the surrounding area. The numbers seem normal for an area of their size...
That would make sense then for this length of contract. That MOS wouldn't be as expensive to train.
my initial enlistment was two years 1974 to 1976- the rest is in my profile
I'd rather my kids do four in the corps.
bang bang bang bang
I went through basic training at Ft. Benning. You learn quite a bit and then the AIT, I am sure, will fill in the gaps.
But I was a 13F so I didnt go to Infantry AIT....
Un-assing the AO, a CW3, possibly as in piloting helicoper?
I was a 67Y AH-1G Snake mechanic, mostly 67-15732.
That just sounds so bizarre. When I enlisted in the National Guard 18 years ago, I was given a ship out day 6 months after I enlisted(I was still a senior in HS). Sure enough, I went to the MEPS station that day and was put on a plane to Fort Jackson that same afternoon. Spent 4 days at the reception depot and started Basic on the fifth day.
I've never heard of this calling out 50 names and the rest can go home till next week. It should be, at least I know it used to be, written in your contract exactly which day you'll ship out and where you're going for Basic and AIT so you can make arrangements and not get left hanging in the wind. Also, his MOS is supposed to be stipulated in the contract as well. In the Army, every man's alternate is Infantry, but if he's signed up for intelligence or some other high tech job, it's printed in the contract. Recruiters can get into serious trouble for lying to entice a potential recruit to sign the contract.
From personal experience, I know that Navy contracts are pretty much the same. I was going to enlist about 10 years ago to finish paying off my college. My test scores were off the chart, so I had my choice of jobs. Because of some reckless behavior in my younger college days, I couldn't get into intel or the nuke program, but practically every other job in the Navy was open to me. My recruiter was pushing me for aviation electronics, so I figured what the hell. Anyway, the weekend before I went for the physical and take care of all the paperwork, I talked with my old roommate's dad, who happened to be a retired CPO who had been a recruiter. He told me if I couldn't get AE, go for Gas Turbine engineering. Fine.
Sure enough, the next week, I'm meeting with the guy who handles jobs at the MEPS center. AE is closed. So I tell him I want GT. Absolutely not. The next opening date isn't till June, and it's only January. The Navy needs sailors now. How about making you a bosun's mate? I said no. So he practically sneers "Fine!" and starts punching keys on the computer. I go downstairs to take care of the final paperwork, and guess what? I actually read the paperwork, and he'd gone ahead and signed me up as a bosun's mate anyway, with a shipout date a week later!
I told the lady who'd given me the contract, "You can tell, that lying SOB to go to hell!" and circled the job he'd chosen for me over my objection and thought I'd miss it. I walked out of the MEPS station, drove 2 hours home, called my recruiter and said "No thanks"....
Interesting story about your nephew. According to various articles I've seen, the Army is not meeting recruiting goals. It seems that if goals in certain areas are being met so easily, maybe they could be increased to help make up for the shortfalls elsewhere.
Here's wishing your nephew good fortune in his new military career.
Your the first person besides myself that has used that term in a long while.
Your profile says you're in Australia. Are you American?
Anyway, I joined up a little over a year ago, and I'm older than 39.
Wanna bet that the 15 month active duty is also followed by 6.5 years of inactive reserve, meaning this is a way to snare people into 8 years active duty, as many "reservists" are now doing 1 year stints in Iraq.
Me too!
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