I heard that if you get an administrative seperation and an RE4 on your dd-214....well i know you can never again enlist in any branch of the military....but i also heard that nobody with a government contract will hire you, future employers wont hire you because of it...any truth to this?
2007-03-07 10:17:04 · 4 answers · asked by jetmech_63 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
All of it is 100% true. Government contractors or any businesses that do business with the government are banned from hiring you. That is why everyone and their mom tells you not to mess up while you are on active duty and do stuff that will get you an RE-4 discharge. On top of what you just mentioned you are also ineligible to receive ANY kind of federally insured college student loans, which is all of the college loans out there. So going to college is out of the question too unless you pay for every cent of it. No college grants either. Welcome to the real world this is something that will follow you the rest of your life and in most cases it wasn't worth it just to get out of serving for whatever reason you got in trouble in the first place.
Also the guy that mentioned you could get it changed to an RE3 is wrong. An RE3 is for specific things that have nothing to do with behavior. It is for people who can't swim that join the Navy or sleep walkers or other specific cases, not that they smoked pot or went UA or whatever. An RE4 is almost impossible to get changed into anything. The legal system in the military makes sure they have things 100% straight when they send you home so there is no question if they gave you the right code or not. That's the breaks. Do your best at whatever you are doing now and make something of yourself that you can be proud of. This will be in your life forever, but you can still overcome it.
2007-03-07 11:49:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most defense contractors have enough former military around to:
1) recognize that the DD214 is an important tool for evaluating a prospective employee
2) know what the major RE codes mean
And you can petition to get a better re-entry code - but they only do this if you can prove that you did not deserve that RE4.
2007-03-07 11:14:05 · answer #2 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can also petition the VA to change it to an RE-3. Which means that you can get back into the Military with a Waiver. Also for purposes of enlistment, some RE-4 are looked at as RE-3.
2007-03-07 10:27:09 · answer #3 · answered by JimFinSC 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
not true. most contractors don't know what an RE4 is.
2007-03-07 10:21:00 · answer #4 · answered by Mickey S 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋