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119Wrestler
07-26-08, 02:21 AM
How do you get recruiters assistance?
Thank you.
jackson07
07-26-08, 12:43 PM
First you call and ask your recruiter to fax you orders for RA. Than you attach those orders with a PTAD request and file it through your coc.
ThisDayAMarine
07-26-08, 02:30 PM
You have a 50/50 chance to get RA depending on if your MOS school is backed up or not but just ask your recruiter to apply and if your not told if you've got it before you leave for MCT, don't assume and wait around because then you will be UA.
PTurchan
07-26-08, 04:04 PM
If you are allowed to go is often based upon how your superiors view you and your PFT score.
119Wrestler
07-26-08, 04:26 PM
oh ok, if it depends on my PFT score I'm good to go, I have a 300 PFT, and I have 2 more years to go till Boot Camp.
PTurchan
07-26-08, 04:32 PM
Yeah, usually they require a 1st class PFT.
jackson07
07-27-08, 01:47 AM
Sorry my answer was for Marines in the fleet.
PTurchan
07-27-08, 03:11 AM
I was thinking in student status. At my shop and probably the whole squadron, no one was getting RA.
119Wrestler
07-27-08, 03:19 PM
what do you mean student status?
I meant after boot camp.
PTurchan
07-27-08, 04:04 PM
Student status is when you are learning your MOS which if you are not an 03 is after MCT.
119Wrestler
07-27-08, 04:28 PM
Oh no, I meant, how do you get recruiters assistance after Boot Camp?
PTurchan
07-27-08, 05:47 PM
Route your request up the COC and they will help you with the paperwork on their end. Best check with them before you ask the recruiter to route orders over.
ianmusto
07-27-08, 06:39 PM
Go to bootcamp... probly the first step.
I got RA immediately after boot camp because my recruiters requested that I come help them... its for 10 days only and any Marine can get it if the recruiters put in the request. that is unless you have a school seat before you join... I know some MOSs are hot fills and they need your immediately.
and if you are 2 years away from boot camp, you aren't out of high school or you are trying to get educated to become a officer then.... either way, you are so far out that you shouldn't be concerned about this yet.
good luck on your travels to boot camp, hope you make it.
CarolinaMarine
07-27-08, 11:09 PM
Our whole company got RA after bootcamp. 20 days i believe. Over christmas, new years through Jan. Could get lucky like that. Of course you can always decline it and go on to school.
I knew guys at MOS school that were stuck in forming while they waited to be picked up, they got to go on some RA while they were in there.
yeah, we had a red-patcher who was waiting for school for 9 months who went to RA 3 times.... dude could have picked up Cpl had he gone through school... he calculated his composite score and sure enough... he got shafted by reservists.
they get first priority over school seats.
CarolinaMarine
07-28-08, 10:54 AM
I'm a red patcher :marine: 0481 school picks up a small number compared to someone like Embark or Motor T. I think my class picked up about 10ish? So naturally there are a lot of 81's sitting in forming. 9 months is insane though. I was held back at PI for sickness about 2 months, and i hooked back up with guys from my original plt in MOS school forming that were still waiting to be picked up.
darkgreen0311
07-28-08, 03:50 PM
I had Recruiters assistance back in 1984. When i got it, i had been the fleet for two years already. I was pretty cool with my recruiter and he looked out for me.
:marine:Semper FI 4 Life
Give me liberty or i'll get it myself!!!
DG0311.... have you checked out Marine 4 life program?
https://www.m4l.usmc.mil/
check it out.