Do you want to travel the World for awhile? Before you join, recognize the fact that a stint in the military is not civilian employment. You can go to jail just for being late for work.
No matter how high your rank, no matter which service you join, there will always be someone telling you what to do, and when to do it. Not so, in the military. The military is allowed to discriminate by gender. The recruiter is going to ask you many personal questions during that first interview Have you ever used drugs?
Be as specific as possible. He or she may not volunteer information which may chase away a potential quota. Be very suspicious of any unclear, or vague answers. Always press for specifics. Job selections for these branches are performed during your processing at the Military Entrance Processing Station MEPS , and the recruiters have nothing or little to do with it.
Recruiters are busy animals. In fact, recruiters put more hours on-the-job than just about any person in the military. They get their regular paycheck, whether you enlist or not. She might be speaking at a high school or college.
He might be at the recruiting squadron branch, division , taking care of paperwork, or going through a training class. He might be taking a few days of well-deserved leave vacation. Treat the recruiter with the same courtesy that you would give if you were at a meeting with the hiring director for a civilian job.
If you were trying to get a job with Microsoft, you most certainly would not walk in dressed as a bum, or make an appointment, just to cancel it at the last minute. Choose your service based upon your interests, not whether or not the recruiter was kind enough to buy you lunch at McDonalds. Once you make your decision, make an appointment with the recruiter for the service you want to join. The recruiter will ask you a bunch of questions to see if you qualify for military service.
These will be questions about age, citizenship or immigration status, education level, criminal history, drug abuse history, and medical conditions. The recruiter may weigh you, and ask to see personal paperwork birth certificate, high school diploma, social security card, etc. It is a felony to give false information or withhold required information on any military recruiting paperwork. See I Cannot Tell a Lie for detailed information about possible consequences.
Marine Corps recruiters work with recruits to fill job or enlistment program quotas that are given to them from their headquarters. They then have seven days to go to MEPS, take the physical and then do the final signing for that job.
The applicant will have to meet the qualifications for the job ASVAB, physical profile, security clearance requirements, etc. To get the job of your choice requires two things: 1 There must be an available vacancy for the job, and 2 you must be qualified for the job. Job Qualification. Job qualification is based on several factors.
Therefore, if the applicant has anything in their background that may prevent approval of a clearance, the MEPS job counselors are unlikely to allow the applicant to reserve that job. Some jobs require additional testing.
Different jobs have different physical requirements. In order to reserve a job, one must meet the minimum physical profile required for that job. Some jobs especially in the Army and Air Force , require a minimum lifting ability, which must be demonstrated before the job can be reserved for the recruit.
In this case, the choice is yours It should be noted that while these situations have been known to happen, they occur rarely.
On the other hand, if you fail to qualify for the job due to a reason within your control you fail in training, you get into trouble, or you give false information on your security clearance application and are denied a security clearance , the choice is not yours. The military will decide whether to discharge you throw you out , or to retain you and retrain you into a job that you qualify for.
If the job you want is not available, your only choices are to choose a different job, or not enlist. Air Force. The Air Force has divided all of their jobs into four aptitude areas General, Electronic, Mechanical, and Administrative. It is unfortunate, but true that a majority of Air Force jobs approximately 60 percent are are reserved for individuals joining under the Guaranteed Aptitude program.
Therefore, many of the available jobs are not released to the Air Force Jobs Counselor. If one enlists in the Guaranteed Aptitude Program, they will meet with a job counselor around the 2nd week of basic training. Understand that not all Air Force jobs within the aptitude area will be on the list.
Only the jobs that have open school seats at that particular point in time. When you receive the list of choices, you have one week to consider it, then you return to the job counselor and give your top 8 choices from the list. Everyone else in the same week of training, who enlisted in the same aptitude program will also have a list that looks exactly like yours. They will be making choices, as well. Those wishing to enlist in the Air Force must be very flexible when it comes to job assignment.
For the past two years and currently , the Air Force has done exceptionally well in recruiting. In fact, the Air Force has thousands of more volunteers than they have enlistment slots for. Because the Air Force has many more applicants than they have slots for, it is very common for an applicant to process through MEPS, and return enlisted in the DEP Delayed Enlistment Program without a reserved job-slot or shipping date.
Instead, while at MEPS, they provide a list of job and aptitude area preferences to the job counselor, then they are placed on the QWL Qualified Waiting List , for one of their preferences to become available. This can take several months. Plain and simple.
In order to join the Air Force, one must be flexible with both job selections and dates of availability. The down side? The Air Force will — at times — work someone outside of the job they were trained in. This usually happens when someone does something that results in temporary disqualification from their normal job, or if someone volunteers for a special job or project.
While both programs are available, most enlist under the Guaranteed Job program. Members of the Reserve and National Guard may be deployed. When scheduled to deploy, they may have extended drill in preparation, resulting in a greater time commitment on behalf of the Service Member. The U. It is an auxiliary of the Navy and during wartime can be called to deliver troops and war material.
Those who serve in the Merchant Marine are called Mariners not Marines. They are civilians who are only considered military personnel during times of war; Mariners are given Veteran status if they served in a war. Veterans Crisis Line: Press 1. Complete Directory. Army Reserve: Part-time Service. Full-time Success. GI Rights Hotline. Active Duty vs. United Services Organization. Army Reserve. Coast Guard.
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I Accept Show Purposes. Your Money. Personal Finance. Your Practice. Popular Courses. Careers Career Advice. Key Takeaways Active duty is full-time service in the U. Reserve-duty service members have much more say in where they live and what kind of work they do full time than active-duty service members do.
The Army's members are its soldiers. It provides national security and search and rescue for America's waterways, seas, and coast. It's responsible for stopping drug smugglers and others breaking maritime law. It enforces marine environmental protection laws.
Service members are Coast Guardsmen and nicknamed Coasties. The reserve component is the Coast Guard Reserve. It provides land combat, sea-based, and air-ground operations support for the other branches during a mission. This branch also guards U. All service members are called Marines. The reserve component is the Marine Corps Reserve. The Navy is part of the DOD. Navy warships provide the runways for aircraft to land and take off when at sea. Navy SEALs sea, air, and land are the special operations force for this branch.
All service members are known as sailors. The reserve component is Navy Reserve. It organizes, trains, and equips space forces to protect U.
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