Can someone still get out the army after they have completed training?

Question

Do they have until after training to decide? how long do they have to decide, if they can get out?

so you have until you sign the contract..when is that? after the training? before? two weeks later?

Im asking cuz i have a friend that barely went to bootcamp yesterday and i was curious to know exactly how many weeks he has to change his mind n get out, if he can

Answer 1

You have all the time in the world before you sign your contract. After that, you serve the time for which you signed up - and if you want out after that, don't re-up.

edit: "sign the contract" = put your signature on the contract that says you will work for Uncle Sam; when you raise your right hand and affirm that you will protect the Constitution.

Answer 2

I'm a little confused on if you are curious or he is curious but at any rate...

First and foremost, I wouldn't base getting out on basic training - it is supposed to be stressful. Further, there is no easy out, he signed a contract. The government has already invested thousands of dollars in his training and salary so they are not going to just let him out on a whim.

He should request to speak with the Chaplain or Chaplain's Assistant. They can either talk him through whatever is troubling him and/or give him guidance on his options. They are not going to tell him an easy way to get out because there isn't one, but they can put things in perspective. If his situation is of a severity that he has to get out (for a VERY good reason) they can give him guidance.

Answer 3

You have until you sign the contract to join the military. Afterwards, you've committed yourself for the period contracted. The idea is not to imprison service-members...it's because the military is paying you while you're training, so they want the benefit of that training for a period after they finish training you. The longer your training, the longer your commitment. My initial training was 38 weeks, so a six year commitment was required for that job.

Answer 4

He signed a contract. He is basically stuck. There are some ways to get out, but they do not reflect well on a person. He can get out once his contract is fulfilled.

Answer 5

Not only does a soldier sign a contract legally binding him for the length of said contract, he takes an oath. So if the legal problems don't bother you, I would thing the integrity thing would. If they have completed trainging, there is really nothing they can do legally.

Answer 6

4 options: dont sign up, make up a medical condition during basic, get to your unit and become a consiencious objector (about a .1% success rate with that) finish your contract. good luck

Answer 7

Major Injury, death, desertion, are all ways to get out.
But...
Why would any patriotic American want to change their mind about the noble commitment they made to our country?
He's in and will hopefully come home safely and a better man for the experience. God Bless Him.

Answer 8

You sign the contract before you go to basic, when you are first accepted after you pass your physical and asvab. This can be up to a year before you go to basic training. Most states have a few days after that in which you can back out of a legal contract. In Colorado, for example, you have three days after entering a legal contract to back out of it (but it doesn't look very good).
If your friend wants to get out now, its not going to be pretty. There are ways to do it, of course, but all of them get you at least an other than honorable chapter out of the military, which means a nasty blip on his permanant record (not quite as nasty as a dishonorable chapter, but thats a possibility with some of his getting out options as well). Also, your friend will likely spend far more time trying to out process if he decideds to get out now than he would if he just finished training.
On to some ideas. In order to get out, the quickest and easiest and perhaps the least damning to your records is to either get fat or fail the PT test. The trendy thing to do when I was in my job training (AIT) was to attempt suicide. We had a suicide attempt at least once a month, most of the idiot kids cut themselves, but we had a few pill takers and one who put a trashbag over her head and layed down on the floor of the female latrine (yeah, she really wanted to die, didn't she?).
After attempting suicide (or getting pregnant, or in trouble some other way), they were all there at least three months longer than what their graduation date would have been. At least. More commonly it took six months longer. Your friend will spend a much longer time getting bossed around by drill sergeants if he attempts to get out of the military while in training. Not passing your PT test is a quick discharge from AIT. In basic they will keep you in a place called FTU (Fitness and Training Unit, if I remember correctly, but everyone called it Fat Tired and Useless) sometimes for months before they let you go, and you have less rights in both situations. In most training envirionments you earn rights and privileges the longer you successfully are in the program, but if you fail PT tests (or get in trouble some way) all the rights are stripped and you stay at the same level as a FNG (F***ing New Guy) or lower the whole time. You also get extra duty.
Dont listen to stories about sleep walking or bed wetting, those things don't get you out, they just get you a lot of teasing and make your life miserable.
Your friend is honestly better staying in at this point, but if he really has no pride, and would rather waste twice the time trying to get out than he would finishing his training, then tell him to fail his pt test... or get pregnant (if your friend is female).

Answer 9

It's called a contract. They have to fulfill a certain amount of time. You don't just walk away, it is not like sandlot baseball.

Answer 10

Once you sign the papers you are locked in unless discharged for medical, psychiatric, homosexual, or mental defect, possibly family hardship.