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I went into the Army Reserve after a 15year break but I was not yet 40. Then I went back on Active Duty as an AGR RECRUITER. I kept my rank and did not have to go back to basic or AIT. It was complicated but it worked out.
there is another bright side. he won't have to wait years to get his reserve-retirement paycheck, like many reserve/guard people do.
Right? I've got a few months more tho go.
Normally anyone who's been in the marine corps doesn't have to go to basic training again.
He probably just has to pass a fitness test.
After 9-11 I met a guy in Dover who was recalled to active duty - willingly. He was a 70+ yr old mortician.
On the other hand, my Air Guard unit hired a rabbi as a chaplain who had no prior service. He was made an O3 and we had the only Jewish chaplain in the Guard. No basic or OCS required.
Like most re-class guys, he'll probably be exempt from most of the daily BS. However, step out of line and all hell will break loose. DS's and instructors will give him plenty of leeway, but will not tolerate any actions that influence the real privates.
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Originally Posted by TomC23
I wonder how he will keep a straight face when some 28 year old drill sergeant is yelling at him for motivation. Would love to be a fly on the wall.
He'ds best keep a straight face. A DS can still make his life miserable and take away any privileges.
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Originally Posted by ddm2k
Drill instructor will have to say "gimme 20, SIR!"
After my four-year break in service, when I was going through bootcamp a second time, I found that after-hours I was able to put on my dress uniform and walk to the base EM club.
This was at San Diego RTC, which was also the home of BEE school. The instructors for that school were all ET1s and 2s, and they were forbidden from fraternizing with their students. I was an ET2 at the time, the bar was full of BEE students. Seeing that I was an ET2 they assumed I must be one of their instructors. They bought me all of my drinks, wanting to hear sea stories.
I wonder how he will keep a straight face when some 28 year old drill sergeant is yelling at him for motivation. Would love to be a fly on the wall.
I disagree. He knows the game and will act accordingly.
It's like when I went into the service in the 70's. I grew up in the deep south and had never had an African-American in power over me. Yeah - my world was pretty much lily-white when it came to people in authority.
As luck would have it, my training instructor was African-American. How long do you think it took me to follow his orders the first he barked at us? Yeah - about a tenth of a nanosecond. That sgt was the man and I knew it and respected him from minute 1 in the service.
He got out with less than three years to go to retirement? Wow...
And he was probably cut a nice check for retiring early, usually an inducement to forgo a pension.
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