- Joined
- Jul 16, 2019
thats not the first time someone couldnt reply to me for some reason. but thank you for explaining that. i was pretty sure that was the case but seeing as ive never touched military paperwork before i figured id seek out an accurate explaination.@dirt lamb I can't reply to you but can help confirm your suspicion here.
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Once you ship to basic, you are getting a DD-214. There's no "voluntary" withdrawal going forward, you're in big boy/big girl military.
Of note is the PEBD (Pay Entry Base Date) of 20060322/22 Mar 2006. Reservists in DEP will start drilling and therefore that date reflects their enlistment, not their ship date.
To enlist into DEP, they would need more than 1 month between their date of enlistment and Basic ship date. What he is describing is a "split option" contract where a high school junior joins the National Guard or Reserve, completes Basic training the summer between their junior and senior year, drills on the weekends as a sort of half-soldier, and then completes their MOS training the following summer.
Basic on a split option contract would be 10 weeks beginning generally the first week or two into June to allow them to be back for school in the fall.
Obviously, there is no way to compress this timeline to even allow for them to have completed 10 weeks of training between the beginning of June and the 29th of June.
totally thought i edited this reply into my last post. sorry for 2x posting ;(