Military active duty and separation benefit?

Hello Cody It is amazing how much today's young people don't know about the military. You will do military service nor "depending on whether YOU like it or not." You will do military service IF the military needs your skills and wishes to KEEP you in the military.

There is NO Constitutional right to be in the military. The military is free to make up its own rules about who they will accept or not accept. And, they change the rules at their own whims.

Like today (past few years) now requiring a 50% score on the AFQT to enter when the legal scores are: Army 31, Marines 32, Navy 35, Air Force 36, and Coast Guard 40. So, today, even though people whom you are going to replace entered the service with lower scores; you, on the other hand, are going to have to prove that you can score higher than those who served their country for 20+ years. This whole thing is a social experiment.

"I" believe that you make at least the minimum score and then go on a waiting list and the next person up gets to go to basic training. And, if in the meantime you change your mind about the military then they scratch off your name when they call you and you say; "No, sorry - I have this civilian job and I'm going to keep it." And, then they go down the list to the next person.

I don't care if 1 million people are on the waiting list. To arbitrarily raise the score now is a gross insult to all those who served in the past and did their duty - probably better than you are going to do yours - maybe! Every peep out there needs to forget about this IRR (Individual Ready Reserve) thing that is thrown up into your faces.

Once your active duty enlistment ends you are NEVER going to be recalled back onto active duty. Being in the Individual Ready Reserve is just something to make you worry. However, some military officers do have an IRR commitment and they come on service at specific time to do their "hours."

The standard military enlistment contract is for 4 years for everybody. When services like the Army offer a limited number of 2 or 3 year enlistments the job you get is a lesser trained one. The service is not going to spend time and money training you to do a job that normally takes about 6 months of schooling just to have you get out in 2 years.

You are "probably" just going to basic training/bootcamp/basic combat training (anything you like to call it) for 9 - 11 weeks. Then, you would "most likely" go to a base without any technical school training to be trained there in OJT (On-The-Job-Training). You will be some kind of a "helper" in general.

Maybe you will be another vehicle driver. Or, other jobs that you can learn without classroom training. If that is what you want, then, OK.

Go for it. Now, if you really want to be a civilian police officer, then, sign up in the military for 4 years and VOLUNTEER to be a cop. MP, Military Police, Then, you will receive appropriate police training that is transferrable to the civilian police forces.

But, you are not going to be able to in your last 5 months take off and go to California, New York, Florida to be interviewed for a police job in some small town or large city. Maybe you can put in an application on the Internet. And, maybe if you have enough leave time accrued you can get permission to take the leave and travel, round trip, at your own expense (expensive no less) for an interview.

But, in general, you remain in the service until your last day and then pack your bags, turn in your I.D. Card, get final pay to your home of record (where you enlisted from) and you are out the gate a civilian once more.

Minimum contracts are 4 years Active Duty. Any INTELLIGENT person starts the civilian job hunt 9-12 months before ETS.

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