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Hi everyone and Happy Valentine's Day! My son is currently at Camp Geiger/ITB and will be graduating the beginning of March. He really wants to go active. Does anyone know what the process is and how...

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Thats never an easy situation....it's been 3 months since your post, has your son been able to find anything?? There are a lot of different options, it's just about talking to the right people. My...

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Thanks usmch2b. I will pass this info along to my son. His first reserve weekend gig was to be in August but was canceled because there were too few reservists. What bothers me is that he called the...

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how do you get in touch with a Marine Corps Career Counselor? My son is also a reservist wanting to be active and he was also told by his recruiter that it was a simple process to switch and it was...

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He can find one at his MOS school!

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My son is also in the reserves and presently at his MOS School. He also wants to go active and I told him to visit the Career Counselor there but he said there isn't one. He is at Ft Sill. They told...

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That's probably because he is at an Army base, not a Marine base. He can try contacting his recruiter at home and seeing if he can help out though!

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My sons Career Counselor told him he had to report to his Reserve unit after MOS training. He said it is up to the Reserve unit; whether to keep him reserve or release him for active duty.

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That is correct - the key is getting out of the current Reserve unit, which doesn't have to release you if they don't want to.

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This answered a lot of questions... seems sometimes recruiters may say somethings they shouldn't say... specially to young men who believe them.

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What's really odd to me is that in the 5.5 years I've been here, I don't think anyone has returned and said they were actually successful. Anyone out there? It seems that they all drop off! I'd love...

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Excellent point Jessica... I have never head the out come of anyone either. It is quiet frustrating to say the least... these young guy and gals start out with someone not being honest with them... we...

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That is correct, the recruiter really doesn't have anything to do with them after they go to boot camp! Their job is to get folks in the door and sign the paperwork. The only time most recruiters are...

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My husband was only allowed to join as a reservist because of our dependants....he wants to volunteer for active duty as soon as possible, how long will it take? will he be able to?

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Read through all of the information above. This is all we know about the subject!

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In all the reading I've done I haven't seen where anyone moved over to active...

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Here is the rundown that I got from my Company Gunny (who actually did this early in his career) on what the process is for reservists to move over to active duty.Basically they need to go back and...

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Correct, however it seems that the "speed bump" has been the Reserve CO signing off on it. They don't want to give up their folks! We recently did have one person switch from Regular Reserves to...

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AlexandriaVA wrote: Correct, however it seems that the "speed bump" has been the Reserve CO signing off on it. They don't want to give up their folks! Actually that is exactly the opposite of what I...

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Who knows....it might be a unit to unit and MOS to MOS difference! There's never a "once size fits all" solution with an organization this size! :)

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Mine is trying to go AR as well, yes it does have a lot to do with your MOS being available and they usually have a list , as well as sometimes they MIGHT let you switch MOS's.. usually within the...

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