This option is only available for certain, hard-to-fill Army Jobs. Additionally, the guarantee is only good for 12 months. After that, the Army can move you anywhere it wants. Under the Navy program, you can be guaranteed a first assignment in a designated geographical area.
However, under the Navy program, there is a catch — the program is not available to those who sign up with a guaranteed rating job. When you enlist in the National Guard or Reserves, you will know, right from the start, where your drilling unit is located generally within miles or so of where you live.
Buddy Program. Under this program, two or more individuals of the same sex can enlist together, and — at a minimum — be guaranteed to go through basic training together. If the individuals have the same job, the services can also guarantee that they will go through job training together.
Split Option. If something happens to your job training date, it can sometimes take forever for the Guard and Reserves to get another training slot. When dishing out job training slots, the active duty forces get first crack, and what is left over is offered to the Guard and Reserves. If you attend job training immediately after basic training, you will still be in shape.
That means, for the first month or so of job-school, your off-duty time is strictly regimented. Active Duty Montgomery G. The choice of whether or not to participate in the program is up to the recruit, and is made after a briefing in basic training. Under the current law, Congress can increase these amounts each year to match inflation. The active duty G. Bill Benefits can be used while on active duty, or after honorable discharge Note: Benefits expire 10 years after discharge.
To use MGIB while on active duty, you must serve two continuous years of active duty. To use MGIB after honorable separation from active duty:. You must have served three continuous years of active duty, unless you were honorably discharged early for one of for one of a very few specific reasons such as medical. You only need two continuous years of active duty if o You first enlisted for two years of active duty, or o You have an obligation to serve four years in the Selected Reserve the 2 X 4 program.
You must enter the Selected Reserve within one year of your release from active duty. OR o You were separated honorably early for one of the very specific reasons allowed such as medical. When used after getting out of the military, the G. Bill pays more. When used while on active duty, the G. Bill only pays for the cost of tuition for the course.
Because of this, most people do not use the G. Bill qualification, you do not get your money back. For detailed information about the Active Duty G. Bill, with a few exceptions: Your military pay is not reduced for this program. However, your monetary benefits are not nearly as generous as the Active Duty Program.
You must enlist for a period of six years or more. Fore detailed information about the Reserve Montgomery G. Active Duty Tuition Assistance All of the services offer percent Tuition Assistance for courses taken while on active duty. However, there are limitations. Additionally, there are limits on the amount of TA available per semester hour.
Additionally, many states offer additional education benefits for members of their National Guard National Guard is controlled —for the most part—by the individual States, not the Federal Government, so benefits can vary widely from state-to-state. However, for all of the reserve service , military members who are called to active duty under Title 10 — Federal Call up — get the same TA benefits as their active duty counterparts. College Degrees and Commissioning Programs The Air Force is the only service that actually issues college credits and college degrees.
The CCAF does not itself offer college courses. CCAF issues fully accredited college transcripts, and awards Associate of Science Degrees to Air Force Members in educational areas of their military specialties, using a combination of credits for off-duty college courses, military schools, and military experience. The other services do not issue college degrees, nor do they actually award college credits.
The answer is yes. Several hundred enlisted military personnel do this every year. Each military base has an Education Office, who have arranged for colleges and universities to conduct college courses on-base, leading to various degree programs. However, one should realize that it takes much more time, then if you were going to college full-time as a civilian.
There are now several universities some associated with the military, some not who will allow you to take most if not all courses via the Internet. The Army even has a program where they will issue a free laptop computer to recruits enrolled in authorized distant learning programs. The Navy takes college professors with them on some of their larger ships, so they can offer off-duty college courses to sailors at sea. In addition to taking courses off duty, each of the services have programs which allow some enlisted to remain on active duty and attend college full-time receiving full pay and allowances.
Some of these programs lead to a commission as an officer, some do not. Most require that you commit yourself for a longer hitch in the military. Most require that you obtain some college usually two or three years on your own, first. ALL of these programs are extremely competitive.
Enlisted members who do obtain a college degree while on active duty can apply for a commission through Officers Candidate School Officer Training School for the Air Force. The Army and the Coast Guard are the only services in which an enlisted member can obtain a commission without having a 4-year college degree.
Enlisted members in the Army can attend OCS and be commissioned with only 90 college credits. However, they must complete their degree within one year of being commissioned, or they risk being reverted rifted to their previous enlisted rank. Should I Join the Military? Common Courtesy Recruiters are busy animals.
Many of the larger Air Force squadrons have such volunteer teams. If you choose not to join the military after signing up for the DEP, all you have to do is not show up and you will not be in the military. You do not have to have any further contact with your recruiter or anyone else in the military. You are not obligated by law, or any authority, to answer the door or the phone, or to go anywhere with the recruiter.
Again, all you have to do is not show up and you will not be in the military. Recruiters are under tremendous pressure to fulfill their obligation to get people to join the military. Often, when a person in the DEP informs the recruiter that he or she has changed his or her mind and no longer wants to join the military, the recruiter will say it is too late and that there is nothing that can be done.
The recruiter may tell the person he or she must report on the date scheduled. Because many recruiters leave people in the DEP for the entire year allowed, this presents a problem when people are in a hurry to join another branch. We do not recommend that anyone hurry into any military contract. One avenue to speed up the process of getting out is to submit a letter asking for release. Some people use certified mail and save a copy of the letter for themselves. If after weeks of asking for discharge in writing there is no satisfactory reply, a person can contact their local congressional office and ask that an inquiry be done into status of their separation request.
See house. People who have taken these steps can still get out of the DEP using methods described above. Eventually a persons time in the DEP ends and the transition to active duty for training basic training begins.
Up until that final point of the second swear in and signing of the last page of the contract, people have been able to get out of the DEP by simply refusing to go. Once a person has sworn in the second time as part of shipping out they may still be able to get out of the military, but it will involve much more time and energy.
People who believe they are in this status can contact a GI Rights Counselor at to determine what options they have. Recruiters in these components sometimes try to use this difference to confuse people into thinking it is much harder for them to get out than it is for people in the DEP. This is typically true for members of the National Guard as well, however because National Guard members are also subject to state jurisdiction, they can face penalties at the state level. While most states simply release people who don't report, there are a few states that have punished some people for not reporting to basic or for missing drill.
Anyone who has signed up for reserves or National Guard and not yet gone to boot camp can call a GI Rights counselor to discuss their situation and issues in their state: You will get out of the military. As described above it may take some time before it is finalized, but eventually everyone who has not reported has been released.
We have never seen withdrawing from the DEP have any effect on things like employment, bank loans, school eligibility, or your legal record.
This is the case for non-citizens as well as citizens. In fact the military will normally let someone who has gotten out of the DEP enlist again. Some employment applications ask about military service. Generally people do not list DEP time on employment application reasoning that they were never in an active pay status. Remember, those who do not complete basic training can never be viewed as service members, prior military service members for purposes of going into the Guard or Reserve, etc.
Once you have completed basic training and report to your first duty station, you are officially serving in the United States Military. You have signed a legally binding contract obligating you to fulfil the terms of that contract and there are no provisions for early outs, quitting, or abbreviated tours unless the Defense Department decides it is in their best interest to let you go before your original date of retirement or separation.
That said, there are provisions for certain special circumstances that may give some the alternative they are looking for when it comes to getting out of the military early or quitting the military. You could be given an administrative separation for failure to manage your military travel credit card properly, for not meeting initial physical fitness standards at your first duty station, failure to successfully complete professional military education, etc.
And admin sep is not automatically punitive, but many of the circumstances that require one make them seem punitive. You can be involuntarily separated for breach of contract—and what that often means for some recruits is that a lie they told the recruiter during the screening process is revealed to be just that—a lie.
If you concealed past legal entanglements, drug use, or lied about having or not having dependents, these issues could all result in a determination of breach of contract that can lead to the recruit being involuntarily separated.
Some are discharged because they are deemed mentally or physically unfit for duty.
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