If I were to become a Marine Officer would I have to serve a certain amt of yrs as Active Duty before Reserves

Question

I'm asking this because I was talking with a Marine recruiter a little while ago and he said something about 3 yrs...

I haven't been able to find that much information about this on the Marine Officer websites.

Answer 1

This is how it works, when you sign up for any amount of time you automatically sign up for 8 years inactive reserve. You pick how many years you want to be in, it can be anywhere from 2 years to 6 years. Anyways you select how long you want to be in the service. Each year you complete that takes another year off your inactive reserve. Example you server 4 years you will still be on inactiver reserve for another 4 which means you can be called back to duty any time Uncle Sam says so.

Answer 2

Depends on how you commission and whether or not you commission into Active Duty or into the Marines.

If you Commission directly into a reserve Unit, you can however, be called up to serve in Active duty for up to 2 years at a time before they have to release you .

Answer 3

Depends on your specialty--like medical corps--call your local university and ask a military science instructor (usually a member of one of the branches)

Answer 4

Hmm..
No.
I THINK you can go striaght to Reserves.
I have no idea though.

Answer 5

not true you can just do reserves