I want to thank everyone who chimed in on the topic. I intend to read all of these posts several more times. I think I will try and talk to a recruiter and take a look at the paperwork. This is a pretty big deal for me and It's something I will be thinking over for several weeks, maybe months.
I do have another question though. It may sound ridiculous to the vets here but I have to know. If I joined tomorrow, When is the soonest I could be deployed? I assume I have to go through basic and ait but ?
Also since I want to go for reserves, basic and ait would take over a year since its only weekends and the two week per year deal, right???
thanks again to all responders.
It's impossible to say. The MOS will drive where you go to basic, or OSUT (One Station Unit Training), what the training cycles are etc. When you shid could be a week, could be a few months. Then how long is your training? Army basic is now 10 weeks (lengthened because Americans are so fat these days). Then AIT, intel and other specialies are 4, 5 months, to a year. Others are 6 to 8 weeks. Then what unit are you enlisting into? Your recruiter will tell you specifically where you are going. Each unit has an MTOE that determing how many, what grade and MOS. Once you know that then you can see if they are up for deployment. Units receive an deployment alert about one year in advance.
Hell you might even get into a TDA unit and never deploy.
So, who knows?
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