RedArctic
12-18-11, 12:49 AM
I DEPed in on the 15th of August with a ship date for the 23rd of January.
My original Job interests were in Infantry and was given a contract straight out of MEPS. (I didn't have any regrets about it.) However, as the boot camp shipping date grew closer, I've been putting more thought into what's actually going to be happing in the other 3 and a half years. I don't mean to jump ahead of myself since I'm not a Marine yet, but hopefully you get my logic here.
I don't want an Infantry contract anymore. It's not so much the combat aspects that turned me off(I don't mind them to be honest), it's just that I'm not certain it's something that I want to get myself into for the rest of the time. Point is that I wanted to switch my MOS ever since I started looking past the boot camp hype. Now boot camp's a month away and I've held back the change for too long.
Similar questions online claim that I have no obligations to actually ship out until the second oath. I want to ship out, but not with an Infantry job. I've also seen that if a Recruiter already processed everything, is it difficult for him to change a contract(?).
The question I really want to ask though is how would I approach my Recruiter on the change? I realize that by holding it back till practically the last moment, and especially during a set of weeks where all the holidays are kicking up, wasn't exactly convenient for anybody. So how should I go about making this change?
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If it matters, I'm trying to switch from Infantry to Communications(it was one of my interests from the start, but not the 1st.)
My original Job interests were in Infantry and was given a contract straight out of MEPS. (I didn't have any regrets about it.) However, as the boot camp shipping date grew closer, I've been putting more thought into what's actually going to be happing in the other 3 and a half years. I don't mean to jump ahead of myself since I'm not a Marine yet, but hopefully you get my logic here.
I don't want an Infantry contract anymore. It's not so much the combat aspects that turned me off(I don't mind them to be honest), it's just that I'm not certain it's something that I want to get myself into for the rest of the time. Point is that I wanted to switch my MOS ever since I started looking past the boot camp hype. Now boot camp's a month away and I've held back the change for too long.
Similar questions online claim that I have no obligations to actually ship out until the second oath. I want to ship out, but not with an Infantry job. I've also seen that if a Recruiter already processed everything, is it difficult for him to change a contract(?).
The question I really want to ask though is how would I approach my Recruiter on the change? I realize that by holding it back till practically the last moment, and especially during a set of weeks where all the holidays are kicking up, wasn't exactly convenient for anybody. So how should I go about making this change?
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If it matters, I'm trying to switch from Infantry to Communications(it was one of my interests from the start, but not the 1st.)