Originally Posted by
-Wes-
It's not as easy as I'd have hoped.
I was told by my recruiter that no one is allowed to go straight back to active right now. First I have to go reserves, then build up a "resume" so that when I request to go back active I'll have a higher chance for success.
That "resume" for me would be:
-Go back to "A" school since I'm cross rating from AM2(Aircraft Mech) to CM2(Seabee).
-Volunteer for a deployment.
-Get a current PRT score and Eval under my belt.
-Try to complete as many PQS's as I can.
Anyone else going through or been through this?
Ok, listen up. Currently at some stations new enlistees are waiting up to 10 months to get a slot ot Great Lakes. When you combine the economy with end strength it is tough to even get into the Navy currently.
As a reserve Seabee I can also assure you that going from the reserve side to active is mostly pure bullshit. I know it happens occasionally but very rarely. The reserve side also has the end strength goals and is very hesitant about releasing a reserve sailor to go active duty. I had one E-6 with 10 active Army, 10 reserve Navy. 38 years old and Navy wouldn't take him. He ended up going active Army.
Why don't you consider the other branches doing what your old job was? Since we got back from deployment I've lost 8 people to the Air Guard or Army Guard.
I love the Navy but cannot in good faith recommend the Navy Reserve to anyone. In it's current form the admin requirements, medical requirements, and overall requirement of spending more time each month at home on your computer to take care of all other requirements than you do at drill are beyond stupid. At my reserve center we had about 400 sailors 4 years ago, now there's 200. The Navy is throwing people out for very minor lapses in any of the above. Failure to get a private doctors release from something that happened on A/T up to 5 years ago. Failure to do the latest bullshit GMT that you do every year, failure to go to your private dentist because the reserve center doesn't have one.
The Navy reserve in it's current form is broken. Stay away from it.
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