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anybody in the military reserves?

Marine Corps reservist here.

Cool benefits: GI Bill pays for college, automatic in-state tuition (since you sign a multi-year contract)

Kick ASS benefits: Play with explosives, guns, knives, Hummers... and this last drill night vision goggles, infrared laser sights on the rifles, stuff right out of Splinter Cell. Do that once a month, and 2 weeks in the summer 😀
 
If you become a Reserve Military Policeman, you'll have lots of good benefits. Right now MPs are one of the most deployable jobs in the military, that is if you want to go out and see the world. As far as other benefits, you could get a nice signing bonus, GI Bill, college loan repayment, cheap Dental coverage (like $4.00 a month) and a few other things.

PS-you should also realize that if you are a Reservist, you WILL deploy somewhere for 6 months or so at some point in the next 5 years or so. Please realize that that is your job. We have so many people that get pissed when they have to drop out of college so they can deploy. They must think that they'll join the military, get all the benefits and money and then never have to repay that debt.
 
PS-you should also realize that if you are a Reservist, you WILL deploy somewhere for 6 months or so at some point in the next 5 years or so.
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I don't know which branch you're talking about, but my reserve unit doesn't do that.
 
Famous last words of a fool. I went for my entire 6 year initial contract without deploying, now I've deployed twice in the last year and a half. Hate to say it, but plan on deploying soon. The Chief of the Army Reserve came and spoke to us and told us that if we thought the Reserves were used heavily now, just wait. He told everyone in the room that they WOULD deploy at least once in the next 5 years, guaranteed. Granted, you are in the Marine Corps Reserve, but I can bet that you will get the call in the next year or two, provided you're still in.
 
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Famous last words of a fool. I went for my entire 6 year initial contract without deploying, now I've deployed twice in the last year and a half. Hate to say it, but plan on deploying soon. The Chief of the Army Reserve came and spoke to us and told us that if we thought the Reserves were used heavily now, just wait. He told everyone in the room that they WOULD deploy at least once in the next 5 years, guaranteed. Granted, you are in the Marine Corps Reserve, but I can bet that you will get the call in the next year or two, provided you're still in.
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Ahhhh, fsck. OK, I thought you originally meant it as "a reservist will deploy at some point during his contract just so we can feel like we're using him the right way. Weather or not we need him, we're going to deploy him."
If I get called up, there'll be no complaints from me. I signed up for the job, I'll do my time if I have to.

EDIT: And actually, I found out at my last reserve drill how close I was to deploying to Iraq... apparently my unit all had orders to ship out. Signed, official activation orders at the reserve station. Then Turkey said we couldn't go through there and as a sort of consolation they sent part of their army down to reinforce the units already there. So my unit got the call at the last minute as they were getting ready to call people up and were told not to.
 
Originally posted by: Rogue
Famous last words of a fool. I went for my entire 6 year initial contract without deploying, now I've deployed twice in the last year and a half. Hate to say it, but plan on deploying soon. The Chief of the Army Reserve came and spoke to us and told us that if we thought the Reserves were used heavily now, just wait. He told everyone in the room that they WOULD deploy at least once in the next 5 years, guaranteed. Granted, you are in the Marine Corps Reserve, but I can bet that you will get the call in the next year or two, provided you're still in.
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i read on the army reserve stat site how 1% are on active duty or something like that... cant be bad i suppose. also, ill be done with school in about 2 years so that wont be a problem. besides, what's a computer scientist got going in the job market, anyways; this can do nothing but help 😀

i thought that reservists got very little in terms of benefits, though, compared to the active troops. i dunno i read a bunch of stuff last night and it was all too much to swallow 😀
 
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