RC to AC program in A school

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Originally Posted by wishbone

I noticed that you are prior military. Are they telling you that you have to go reserves because of some age (or other limitation) of going active? If that's not the case, I'd speak to a different recruiting office. Is IT the rate you want?

Being in the reserves myself, I would NOT count on any guaranteed RC to AC. Things change quickly and it'll be some time before you make it all the way through the program. However, as someone has already mentioned, ITs are generally in demand. If you don't volunteer for a mobilization you'll probably be tagged soon enough. IT support is pretty universally needed across the fleet. The nice thing about the reserves is that you get a lot more choice (unless they non-voluntary mobilize you) than you might active duty.

With that said, if AD is what you want and there's no restrictions from you going that direction, I encourage you to hold out for that. The reserves has it's positive aspects but isn't great for someone looking to jump start a career. It may take some time before the Navy can offer you ADSW or Mob orders of some kind and that can be highly dependent on your unit and their ability to make that happen. If you do end up going reserves keep in mind that it is nothing like AD (if you have prior experience) and you will pretty much be on your own to make stuff happen most of the time.

goodluck!

Yeah I was prior service for 10.5 years. No they never told me about any restrictions. It was just a plain "you want to go back active duty as a prior? you need to go reserves first." I guess if anything that's what I thought might be the case. Never realized being prior service could be this hard. I went into their office with an open mind. I willing to look for any rate that sounded good to me. The first thing that they tossed to me was MA and IT. It was a rate I wanted when I first enlisted but my ASVAB wasn't high enough. I retook ASVAB. I guess now I can make the cut, so I just went with it. Told me that's the only rates that are open anyways. (probably not true) lol
Mind you at this point I have gone thru quite a bit of recruiters including a few other Navy, ANG, Army reserves recruiters. So it felt like I was catching a lucky break finally finding someone that would work with me.
No I don't have any dirt in my closet (ie DUI, domestic violence), RE-R1 reenlistment code, Honorably discharged.