In the US military, can officers resign from the service any time they want to?

Question

...even in the middle of a combat deployment? Is the stop-loss program only for enlisted personnel?

Answer 1

Not anytime they are required to serve a min of 8 years before they will be able to resighn as a officer.Even then if we are short on officers hes papers will very likly be denied.Its not the same eight year enlisted do.I talked to both my commander and my 2nd Lt about this and they both said they same thing.They can get out soon for misconduct and personal problem which does not allow him to due his job.

Answer 2

Yes and no. Yes they can resign. Unlike enlisted people who are under a contract, Officers are commissioned and can resign. No they cannot resign in the middle of combat deployment. The resignation has to be approved and only if there is a really good chance that they will cause harm to others, will it be considered in that situation. Other than that, it is a pretty easy thing for them to do. Lucky them!

Answer 3

I'll set everything straight right here.

Clarifies that an officer must serve in the Armed Forces until completion of a
statutory and regulatory military service obligation (MSO) of eight years,
and that REFRAD does not terminate the MSO. An officer who requests REFRAD
before completing the 8-year MSO must complete the MSO in a Reserve Component,
or submit a resignation with a request for waiver of the MSO by the ASA (M&RA).
To waive an officer’s MSO, the ASA (M&RA) must find that the officer has no
potential for service under conditions of full mobilization (paras 2-3 and 3-5)

There's your answer

Answer 4

Yes, they can resign. It does not count until the military accepts the resignation. Lots of officers who were remobilized as individual augmentees had their resignations in for processing when they were called up, and there is an army policy that before accepting an officer's resignation, if his MOS is infantry, special forces, cavalry/recon, or civil affairs, he gets activated before the Army "gets around" to processing the resignation. They even do it to officers who have completed their full eight years of liability.

Answer 5

Maybe another way to re-phrase the question would be:

"Can an officer or enlisted man refuse orders to go to a war that has not been approved by congress or that is obviously " unconstitutional"?

Answer 6

You can put in your papers, but they may not be accepted.

We're desperate for men right now, noones getting out.

Answer 7

i dont think so, they have to carry ou their service