Can I join the Navy right now? Can I join the Navy reserves, what are the pros and cons of each? Thnks n advnc

Answer 1

If you want to join the Navy, first you'll have to go through the Delayed Entry Program, since they're getting enough recruits that everyone has to wait at least a few months between when they initially sign up and when they ship out to boot camp. As for reserves... well, check the link. And in any case, see a recruiter.

Answer 2

This may be HISTORY with the new Navy but I enlisted three days after my 17th birthday (with parents signature and it was a FIGHT)

Went to a meeting once a week (got a leg up) and then went to BC the summer before my Sr. year (SR. pics High and Tight). Did weekly drills and did a two-week cruise the Summer after I graduated (I got ALL the SH** details) and learned about ship life.

Got orders to school at TI in Electronics, did pretty well and got assigned to a ship. Did two tours in NAM and learned a TON!!

I was released because my ship was going back and I was assigned permanent Shore Patrol in San Diego for 60 days ( that was INTERESTING!)

Got released from ACTIVE a month early because I had been accepted in college.

Then I was ordered to report to a DD one weekend (Friday 1600 - Sunday 1600) a month for an additional year. I expected instructor duty one night a week, but you are basically property and do what you are TOLD.

I quickly found out that I was the ONLY sailor in operations that had actually been to sea (including the "CAP") and found out that I knew stuff that others didn't (even Chiefs and Officers); I was not 21 yet, but it didn't seem to matter on Liberty; maybe the ribbons and beret had something to do with it. The "CAP" didn't care for the custom sharkskin uniform (hand made in Hong Kong), but I always got 4.0's at inspection as much as he hated it.

I also met a guy on the DD that would become my boss in my second job back in the world. I became his boss and we just accepted it; we have been close friends ever since.

I never managed to graduate from college; few units short of a double BS and a partial MBA.

WACKED life, GREAT LIFE! Been president of a corporation and I OWE IT ALL to the training I received in the NAVY.

The discipline, leadership and choices under stress have been invaluable! Everyone in business just assumes that I have an MBA; I do NOT lie but I do not correct either and it just seems to work out.

The cons are you are going to be deployed, but it is just the start of your MBA at the University of Life. You will get more responsibility at a young age than you thought that you were capable of and will come through.

Fair seas and following winds,
J
USN E-5 1964-68
In Country
"Honorary" Marine Corps DI

Answer 3

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