I asked the recruiter about ARG(Active Guard Reserve), and he said that it is as easy to get into as filling out an application.. Is this true? Also, from what he explained gave off the impression that as AGR you reap the benefits of active duty while not ever having to be deployed into war, as in you get to stay in your home town, living off Housing Allowance, and working on the nearest base.. Will someone who knows please describe the truth behind AGR to me and let me know if it is, in reality a good route to take? It just sounds too good to be true...
2006-06-29 12:23:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Active Guard/Reserve (AGR) are National Guard or Reserve members of the Selected Reserve who are ordered to active duty or full-time National Guard duty for the purpose of organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training the reserve component units.
BUT... in order to be eligible for this program, you must be discharged from your component of the Army, Army Reserve or Army National Guard and you need to be at least a SPC to be eligible.
Check out the specifics about ARG with your state's National Guard, but to my knowledge, recruits are not eligible for this program...
2006-06-29 12:46:09 · answer #1 · answered by chairman_of_the_bored_04 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Soldiers serve full time and enjoy the same benefits and entitlements of Active Duty Soldiers, including full pay, medical care for themselves and their immediate family and the opportunity for retirement after 20 years of Active Service. Soldiers serving within the AGR Program are stationed worldwide in positions that directly support the Army Reserve.
2006-06-29 20:11:23 · answer #2 · answered by baldwin_county_so 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Active Guard Reserve can be deployed. Read the fine print. If you are in any kind of military, if they need you to go, you go. You are signing into the military, just at a different level. The national guard is in Iraq right now. Make sure you want to go if you sign that paper. Once in, your there's. My nephew is a Marine. He loves it, except the going to Iraq, part. You have to do so many weeks of active duty. That means were there is fighting going on.
2006-06-29 19:31:36 · answer #3 · answered by laurelbush28762 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true, while they might extol all the benefits most of the time those benefits will be gone by the time you'll get to use them. They will send you off to war, watch the news and you'll hear about all the reservists who are in Iraq right now. 60 minutes did a report of some of the reservists who had gone to war even though some weren't physically able to fight or were just too old.
2006-06-29 19:29:39 · answer #4 · answered by moma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AGR is all that he says- except for the competition among other members applying for the positions. Also, if you sign-on with bonuses, as soon as you accept an AGR it seems like those get removed because you are now disqualified for them. Check into it and see what you find out
2006-06-29 19:29:34 · answer #5 · answered by smajjr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to go through basic just as anyone going into the service, any branch of service. You DO get deployed into a war zone if your unit is called up....do you not keep up with the news? My husband is a Marine currently in Iraq, my advice to you is to do some research online b/c that recruiter filled you full of crap.
2006-06-29 19:28:40 · answer #6 · answered by Jill S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honey, recruiters will say ANYTHING to get you to join up. "Nearest base" can mean 3 hours away from your home, "housing allowance" can often put you somewhere relative to being in the projects, and telling you you'll never have to be deployed into war is laughable. Have you watched any news lately? If, God forbid, another person like Bush is elected next time, you can bet your butt you'll be headed off to war.
2006-07-06 19:01:56 · answer #7 · answered by Jane D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE MOST important thing to remember about military recruiters is that they portray themselves as guidance counselors who care about helping students improve themselves. In reality, they are salespeople who are desperate to make their quotas.
They also tell prospective recruits that they can request a specific job or specialty in the military--which they can, but the military is under no obligation to honor these requests, and usually doesn’t. “One of my favorite examples was the caller who was told by the recruiter that if you don’t like the Army after you've been in basic training for about two weeks, you just talk to your drill sergeant, and a discharge can be arranged,” said Jim Picton, a GI rights counselor. “The caller, who seemed intelligent enough, said he did that. The drill sergeant responded, ‘I own your ***--get out of my face!’”
One thing about the military you will realize qick... IT ALL SEEMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE BECAUSE IT IS!
2006-06-29 19:35:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't a bunch of those guys get shipped off to Iraq?
2006-06-29 19:28:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hummmm what a pack of lies...Most of our national guard is in Iraq...
2006-06-29 19:26:36 · answer #10 · answered by cheryl h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋