kbs95125
04-24-07, 05:32 PM
Hi,
Hopefully I am posting this in the right forum.
I am in the process of joining the Marine Reserves.
I had a meeting with my recruiter the other night to fill out forms for MEPS and we were discussing ship dates. To get to the point he told me that Reserve jobs are few and far between right now, and that he wants me to go to MEPS and enlist active duty and DEP with a ship date of June and that he'd just push my ship date back until October(when the Marine year starts according to him) or later and then he'd switch my enlistment to Reserves so I have a larger group of MOS's to choose from.
Is this possible at all?
I am fully committed to joining as a Reserve. I really don't want to think that this will work and end up shipping out in June active duty. Nor am I comfortable with what I feel is lying at MEPS.
I don't want to dick my recruiter around at all or have him feel unsure about my commitment, but I don't want to deal with the bs behind dropping from DEP because of an enlistment misunderstanding. I'm just wondering if I should maybe put this on pause until October instead and join as a Reserve then....
Any help would be appreciated.
Hopefully I am posting this in the right forum.
I am in the process of joining the Marine Reserves.
I had a meeting with my recruiter the other night to fill out forms for MEPS and we were discussing ship dates. To get to the point he told me that Reserve jobs are few and far between right now, and that he wants me to go to MEPS and enlist active duty and DEP with a ship date of June and that he'd just push my ship date back until October(when the Marine year starts according to him) or later and then he'd switch my enlistment to Reserves so I have a larger group of MOS's to choose from.
Is this possible at all?
I am fully committed to joining as a Reserve. I really don't want to think that this will work and end up shipping out in June active duty. Nor am I comfortable with what I feel is lying at MEPS.
I don't want to dick my recruiter around at all or have him feel unsure about my commitment, but I don't want to deal with the bs behind dropping from DEP because of an enlistment misunderstanding. I'm just wondering if I should maybe put this on pause until October instead and join as a Reserve then....
Any help would be appreciated.