do you have to have active duty marine corp experience to go into their reserve program? what about other branch prior experience?
2007-09-01 13:54:01 · 10 answers · asked by Drock 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
If you're new to the military, you can enter the Marine Reserves by enlisting and going to bootcamp. If you're a Marine discharged from active duty (honorable discharge), you can enter the program, but there's a possibility of having to change your career field. If you're coming from another branch, you will have to go through Marine bootcamp first.
2007-09-01 14:40:24 · answer #1 · answered by Rodney 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YOU have been in for four years and can not spell "corp" ????? For something as basic as this, you show nothing that indicates you should be an Officer of Marines. That said, the requirements to become a Commissioned Officer in all Services are the same: - meet all health and physical policy requirements - be a US citizen - be eligible for a SECRET clearance as a minimum - have a BA or BS from an accredited college or university - successfully complete a pre-commissioning program (Service Academy, ROTC, or OCS) Your current enlistment is immaterial - if selected for OCS, you will be discharged for purposes of attending OCS and accepting a Commission. If you go to OCS, you will attend with everyone who goes, i.e. prior service, new service, whatever. Unless you plan on being a lawyer, medical professional, or chaplain, your college field of study is immaterial for the most part. None of the other Services have 'biochemists', so switching Branches is meaningless. The DoD uses civil servants or contracts out that sort of thing. I really can't believe that you even asked question number 4. EDIT: no excuse; much of being an Officer is all about attention to detail when one has been awake and under fire for 12, 24, and 36 hours at a time ... so far you just are not showing me a whole lot to convince me you should be an Officer of Marines.
2016-04-02 22:48:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!!either you join Active Duty Marine Corps, or you join the Marine Corps Reserves, they are two separate things..Good luck
2007-09-01 14:42:28 · answer #3 · answered by LAVADOG 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope I just went for Marine Reserves, If you come from another branch you will have to go through Marine boot camp.
2007-09-01 14:11:24 · answer #4 · answered by Patches 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Theres an "s" at the end of Corps.
2007-09-01 20:54:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can sign up for the USMC reserves.
2007-09-02 01:01:09 · answer #6 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now do you honestly believe there are any reserve units you could join ?
2007-09-01 13:59:39 · answer #7 · answered by Will 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no, you can imediatly become a reserve.
2007-09-01 15:03:29 · answer #8 · answered by Patsfan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to go to boot camp and AIT. So that answer would be yes, sort of.............
2007-09-01 14:40:56 · answer #9 · answered by tallerfella 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, no, and no. Next question please.
2007-09-01 13:58:02 · answer #10 · answered by jimbotron 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋