My husband is a former Marine. With that being said, that means that he completed his Basic Training and was sent to Camp LaJune for "job" training, but before he could begin this training he was discharged with a nondisabling knee injury and told in a year he could re-enlist. My question is, it has been 3 years since his discharge, and he wants to enlist in the Air Force. Will he be able to enlist? And if so, will he have to go through AF basic training before "job" training? Or will his prior Military service and his Lance Corpal position stand?
2006-10-22 18:24:36 · 7 answers · asked by Melissa Breazeale 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
dont ask these people, the only one who will know is a recruiter. ask him and dont have random people on the internet say things they have no idea about.
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2006-10-22 20:47:43 · answer #1 · answered by jackson k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there! My husband is prior Army and enlisted in the Air Force after a three year break. I don't think the knee injury should be a big deal, but being prior service can be a pain. They only take so many a year ... and the recruiter will be helpful with that. Just don't expect it to happen as quickly as it might have when he joined the Marines. He probably will only have to go to tech school since basic was complete. Oh, and there is a week-long class called "Go Blue." As for the rank ... I don't know. My husband was supposed to keep his, but when they processed him he was 21 days short of time in rank to keep it. All they did was put him down one rank and let him test that year for his prior rank. Oh ... you will love it. Deployments are shorter, the AF cares a lot about quality of life and base housing is typically much nicer than the other branches. Fair warning though that the formalities that you see in the other services are not the same in the AF. It took my husband a while to grow accustom to that ... people still tease him about having such "military behavior." Hope this helps!
2006-10-23 00:09:20 · answer #2 · answered by sgtleone1201 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The AF is making a lot of cuts and they only take so many prior service members a year. It will be difficult but he could still try to go through the process. He will not have to attend BMT again but he will have to go to a 4 week course that will get him spun up on how the AF works.
I can tell you know from what I have seen from PS coming into the AF he will lose a stripe while making the transfer. Also he might want to tell him to get to a recruiter quick. The new year starts in Oct and so those slots are prob going fast. Good luck
2006-10-23 00:24:59 · answer #3 · answered by JB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he will have to go through MEPS, where they will check him out physically but he will not have to do basic training all over again. as far as the rank... he won't have to start at the bottom but i'm not sure if they'll let him keep the exact rank he had in the marines. it is a good possiblity though. the air force is laying off 40,000 people right now. the only job they'll let him enlist in would be the critical jobs right now, which are the bad ones. and he will be looking at deploying once a year.
2006-10-22 19:39:48 · answer #4 · answered by lynne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what his re-enlistment code is. If it's not an RE-1, the AF probably won't take him. I got out of the Army with an RE-3
and they would not take me into the AF.
As for the basic training question, I don't know what the reg. is on the time limit is for how long you can be out w/out having to do it again
2006-10-23 00:16:11 · answer #5 · answered by ffemt1234 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the administrative officer of the USAF so that you will readily know if your husband will be admitted again without going through the AF basic training.
2006-10-22 18:29:58 · answer #6 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-16 07:08:29 · answer #7 · answered by rybicki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋