Navy Reserve!!

[PunDogg]

I was thinking of joining just so i could pay for school, and its only one weekend a month, and 2 weeks a year. What do you guys think.

I am in college, and ran into money problems, that is y i have inquired about the Navy reserve

Dogg

 

[PunDogg]

i guess no one has even thought about it hehe

Dogg

 

[CVSiN]

Navy reserve still has to go to bootcamp as well as all their schools and then serve at first before going to true reserve status...
at least thats how it worked when I was USN.
There were reservists up with me all the way to the end of my first year in that I had gone to Boot with..then after all the schools they finally went true reserve... so unless you prepared to take up to a year off to get it started then i dont advise it =P

 

[scauffiel]

It's going to depend on the program you join up with. I went Naval Reserve to do schooling and it was an utter waste of a weekend a month - but I DID get schooling out of it. (Had I stuck with it anyway)

Steve

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: CVSiN
Navy reserve still has to go to bootcamp as well as all their schools and then serve at first before going to true reserve status...
at least thats how it worked when I was USN.
There were reservists up with me all the way to the end of my first year in that I had gone to Boot with..then after all the schools they finally went true reserve... so unless you prepared to take up to a year off to get it started then i dont advise it =P

A year wouldn't be necassary. Two months for boot camp and then he would train at a local reserve station for most rates. I don't know if you can enter the reserve undesignated but he could pick a short school.

 

[CVSiN]

Go regular Navy take free classes at sea/shore and then on top of that use your GI bill =P
plus if you choose an advanced rating you can get that school applied to college credits..
IE my 6 month Aviation Electronics Mate class = an AA degree when transferred to credits.

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: fredtam

Originally posted by: CVSiN
Navy reserve still has to go to bootcamp as well as all their schools and then serve at first before going to true reserve status...
at least thats how it worked when I was USN.
There were reservists up with me all the way to the end of my first year in that I had gone to Boot with..then after all the schools they finally went true reserve... so unless you prepared to take up to a year off to get it started then i dont advise it =P

A year wouldn't be necassary. Two months for boot camp and then he would train at a local reserve station for most rates. I don't know if you can enter the reserve undesignated but he could pick a short school.

going into any armed services in a non choice rate or undesigated = death sentence... all crappy jobs go to you... and most good rates have at least a 4 month A school while others have a A school C School as well as a 2 month FRAMP if he goes into aviation that he must take before going to his reserve squadron...
and IF he gets called up (which is a pretty heavy possibility) then hes stuck active as a non rate E1 lowbie... scrubbing laundry mess cranking or scrubbing the flight deck.. instead of being an E4 from school in an educated roll.

 

[fredtam]

Whoah you can potentailly only do two weeks of boot camp.

" WHAT KIND OF BASIC TRAINING SHOULD I EXPECT?
If you have served previously in the Navy or any other armed service, you will not be required to go through basic training again.

If you have never served, and you qualify for either the Naval Reserve Advanced Pay Grade or the Accelerated Initial Succession Program, you will only be asked to go through two weeks of recruit training.

If you qualify for the Direct Commission Program, you will attend the two week Direct Commission Officer's School in Pensacola, FL.

These two weeks of intensive training will bring out the very best in you both physically and mentally, while transforming you from a civilian into a proud Naval Reserve sailor. "



I agree though. Go regular Navy.

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: fredtam

Originally posted by: CVSiN
Navy reserve still has to go to bootcamp as well as all their schools and then serve at first before going to true reserve status...
at least thats how it worked when I was USN.
There were reservists up with me all the way to the end of my first year in that I had gone to Boot with..then after all the schools they finally went true reserve... so unless you prepared to take up to a year off to get it started then i dont advise it =P

A year wouldn't be necassary. Two months for boot camp and then he would train at a local reserve station for most rates. I don't know if you can enter the reserve undesignated but he could pick a short school.

going into any armed services in a non choice rate or undesigated = death sentence... all crappy jobs go to you... and most good rates have at least a 4 month A school while others have a A school C School as well as a 2 month FRAMP if he goes into aviation that he must take before going to his reserve squadron...
and IF he gets called up (which is a pretty heavy possibility) then hes stuck active as a non rate E1 lowbie... scrubbing laundry mess cranking or scrubbing the flight deck.. instead of being an E4 from school in an educated roll.

Ummm. It is the reserves. That is not the same as going straight to the fleet undesignated. Even then it is not a death sentence. I sometimes wish I would have.

<---ET

 

[CVSiN]

fred you sure about that? we had plenty of Prior service going though Boot with me in 87...
did they change it?
they made boot 100x harder now I was told with the last 3 days beign pure punishment on the stress level...
I would think they would want everyone to go through this now especially when callign reserves up happens all the time...
like I said I went to boot in 87 and we had reserves and prior service all the way through..
things may have changed but I'd get that in writing from a recruiter before I agreed to anything =P

 

[fredtam]

CVSiN I pulled that straight fom the Reserves website. We had reserves in boot camp too (92). I'm just going by what the site says.

http://www.navalreserve.com/nps/faq/default.asp

 

[RagingBITCH]

I can't say about the reserves but the active duty is still like you guys mentioned (my brother in law graduated from Great Lakes about a month ago, he's going to school for EMT stuff and will get out of that for 2 weeks around Thanksgiving before being assigned, more than likely to San Diego)

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I'm dropping weight so I can join either Navy or Marine reserves. They'll pay for schooling to get my degree, then I'll go active.

 

[speed01]

I went through boot in '87 as well and there were several priors with me also...... Do they still have 2X's ? I seem to remember a couple of people in my company who went active for 2 years then reserve for 6 (then again I may be mistaken, it has been a while)...That may be an option for the OP.....Just thought I'd throw my .02 in....

Speed

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: PunDogg
I was thinking of joining just so i could pay for school, and its only one weekend a month, and 2 weeks a year. What do you guys think.

I am in college, and ran into money problems, that is y i have inquired about the Navy reserve

Dogg

It is not merely one weekend a month and two weeks a year. You are facing the possibility of deployment, and it seems to me that although I have never known anyone in the Navy reserve, I've known people join other reserves and it seems that most join assuming that they're just going to collect money and never be called up.

The truth is you can get called and you have to drop your entire life to serve. As far as I know the army is running low on Reserves, what makes you think the Navy is immune to it also?

 

[PunDogg]

Originally posted by: beer

Originally posted by: PunDogg
I was thinking of joining just so i could pay for school, and its only one weekend a month, and 2 weeks a year. What do you guys think.

I am in college, and ran into money problems, that is y i have inquired about the Navy reserve

Dogg

It is not merely one weekend a month and two weeks a year. You are facing the possibility of deployment, and it seems to me that although I have never known anyone in the Navy reserve, I've known people join other reserves and it seems that most join assuming that they're just going to collect money and never be called up.

The truth is you can get called and you have to drop your entire life to serve. As far as I know the army is running low on Reserves, what makes you think the Navy is immune to it also?

I don't think i am immuine to getting picked up, but i am planning on going in with IT, and most of the people picked up were seebee(construstion) and medical personal. But I am hoping the navy reserves don;t get called up, but there is always a chance.

Dogg

 

[CVSiN]

Navy can get called up.. the used Naval Reserve aircraft squadrons in Desert Storm in limited roles...
especially the transport and COD guys as well as Military Sealift Command and the supply guys...
they were working over time...
with todays state of affairs and the US being in a constant state of war these last few years I wouldnt join any service with the idea I wasnt going to be deployed...

 

[RagingBITCH]

CVS is right. They had a story in the Dallas Morning News about how a almost a thousand or so Navy Reservists were called up b/c of the Army/Marines being short handed in Iraq. They were put through about 4 weeks (I think) of combat/hand to hand training as well as training and qualification with the M16 rifle. All backgrounds.