The Air Force has divided all of their jobs into four aptitude areas General, Electronic, Mechanical, and Administrative. It is unfortunate, but true that a majority of Air Force jobs approximately 60 percent are are reserved for individuals joining under the Guaranteed Aptitude program. Therefore, many of the available jobs are not released to the Air Force Jobs Counselor.
If one enlists in the Guaranteed Aptitude Program, they will meet with a job counselor around the 2nd week of basic training. Understand that not all Air Force jobs within the aptitude area will be on the list. Only the jobs that have open school seats at that particular point in time.
When you receive the list of choices, you have one week to consider it, then you return to the job counselor and give your top 8 choices from the list. Everyone else in the same week of training, who enlisted in the same aptitude program will also have a list that looks exactly like yours.
They will be making choices, as well. Those wishing to enlist in the Air Force must be very flexible when it comes to job assignment. For the past two years and currently , the Air Force has done exceptionally well in recruiting. In fact, the Air Force has thousands of more volunteers than they have enlistment slots for.
Because the Air Force has many more applicants than they have slots for, it is very common for an applicant to process through MEPS, and return enlisted in the DEP Delayed Enlistment Program without a reserved job-slot or shipping date. Instead, while at MEPS, they provide a list of job and aptitude area preferences to the job counselor, then they are placed on the QWL Qualified Waiting List , for one of their preferences to become available.
This can take several months. Plain and simple. In order to join the Air Force, one must be flexible with both job selections and dates of availability. The down side? The Air Force will — at times — work someone outside of the job they were trained in. This usually happens when someone does something that results in temporary disqualification from their normal job, or if someone volunteers for a special job or project.
While both programs are available, most enlist under the Guaranteed Job program. Again, whether or not you will be offered the job you want depends upon your qualifications, and the needs of the service. An example would be the Nuclear Program. These programs generally require higher ASVAB line scores, and require a longer service commitment, but offer accelerated promotions, greater training opportunities, and higher enlistment bonuses.
Very, very few Marine applicants get a guaranteed job mostly those with college degrees or high ASVAB scores, applying for certain, designated technical specialties. MOS job is a distant second. Coast Guard. A few schools and therefore jobs are offered during basic training. As well as offering the fewest guaranteed jobs, the Coast Guard has the fewest overall jobs about 23 of any of the services. On the plus side, for the most part, all of the Coast Guard jobs directly relate to a civilian occupation.
Reserves and National Guard. This is because, unlike the active duty forces, who recruit for available slots all over the world, Guard and Reserve recruiters recruit for specific unit vacancies in their local areas. Regardless of what some of the military recruiting commercials on TV indicate, the military is not a job-placement agency. This is especially true for jobs that everyone wants like computer programming , or jobs that only have a few people assigned.
For example, the Air Force has over 22, Security Forces cops assigned. Compare that to the physical therapist specialists authorized, and you can see that the chances of jobs being open for Security Forces is several dozens of times greater than openings for physical therapists. If you are focused on only one or two job possibilities, you are likely to be disappointed.
This may or may not be true. Each of the services have different requirements when it comes to retraining. In the Army and Air Force, one must usually serve a minimum amount of time usually 36 months for a 4-year enlistment and agree to re-enlist to be eligible for retraining. Even then, approval is based upon individual circumstances, and the needs of the service.
For all of the services, if the job you are serving in is extremely short-manned, or if the job you want to re-train into is over-manned, your retraining application is not likely to be approved. When you enlist in the DEP, you are actually in the military. You are enlisted in the inactive reserves, and are legally and morally bound by your enlistment contract. When you sign on the dotted line in the National Guard, you immediately become a member of your National Guard Unit.
This is a binding contract, and if the military wanted to, they could prosecute you for not shipping out on the date specified on the contract. However, current regulations and policies require the military services to discharge you from the DEP, if — at any time before shipping out — you apply to be released from the contract the request should be in writing and should state the reason you wish to be discharged from the DEP.
In fact, the only bad consequences to dropping out of the DEP, is that if you later want to enlist in that same service, it will be on THEIR terms, not yours. Most services have policies that require a waiver processing for recruits who previously dropped out of DEP of their service. That being said, if you request a discharge from the DEP, expect your recruiter to be justifiably angry. See The Delayed Enlistment Program for more detailed information.
This is the contract that is used for military enlistments and re-enlistments. Of all the paperwork you signed during the process to join the military, this is the most important document. See Part 3 of this series for more information about the DEP. In fact, the bottom of the very first page of the enlistment contract contains the following clause:. The agreements in this section and attached annex es are all the promises made to me by the Government.
This is because military members are already entitled to it by law. For example, medical care, base pay, and the Montgomery G. Second, those enlisting on active duty will have at least two enlistment contracts — the initial contract for the Delayed Enlistment Program, and a final contract that one will sign on the day they go to MEPS to ship out to basic training. Enlistment Periods. Thought you were enlisting for four years? Think again.
It may surprise you to learn that ALL non-prior service enlistments in the United States Military incurs a total eight year service obligation. When you sign that enlistment contract, you are obligating yourself to the military for a total of eight years. Paragraph 10a of the enlistment contract states:. Any part of that service not served on active duty must be served in a Reserve Component unless I am sooner discharged.
You serve your four years and get out. This total 8 year service commitment applies whether you enlist on active duty, or join the Reserves or National Guard. The key is, once you join, if there are any conflicts going on, the military can hold you past your normal separation or retirement date. Up until October , the Army and Navy were the only services that offered active duty enlistments for periods of less than four years. However, because of enlistment shortages, the Army has dramatically expanded slots under this program in and The Air Force and Marine Corps still have little interest in a two-year active duty program.
So, they implemented the very basics and applied many restrictions — you probably have a better chance of hitting the lottery than getting one of the very few National Call to Service slots in these two branches.
For example, under the Air Force Plan, the program is limited to one percent of all enlistments about total recruits, out of 37, , and the program is limited to 29 Air Force jobs. The Army and the Navy are the only services which have active duty enlistment options of less than four years, which are not part of the National Call to Service program.
The Army offers enlistment contracts of two years, three years, four years, five years, and six years. Most Army jobs require a minimum enlistment period of four years, and some Army jobs require a minimum enlistment period of five years. The Navy offers a very few two year and three year contracts, where the recruit spends two or three years on active duty, followed by six years in the Active Reserves.
The other services offer four, five, and six year enlistment options The Air Force only offers four and six year enlistments. All Air Force enlisted jobs are available for four-year enlistees.
However, the Air Force will give accelerated promotions for individuals who agree to enlist for six years. They are then promoted to the grade of E-3 Airman First Class upon completion of technical training, or after 20 weeks after basic training graduation whichever occurs first.
Six year enlistment options are not open to all jobs, at all times. Most Navy jobs are available for four-year enlistees, but some special programs such as Nuclear Field require a five year enlistment. These special programs usually offer increased training opportunities, and accelerated promotion.
Enlistment Incentives. Sometimes recruiters try to convince enlistees to lie on the enlistment agreement — to provide false information so that you will be accepted into the service. They may also lie to you or to your family. These questions concern previous drug use, involvement with communism, whether or not you are a conscientious objector to war, and whether you have previously been in trouble with the military.
All of these categories are considered character defects by the military, and anyone who fits these categories is considered unfit for the military. When filling out the enlistment form, recruiters frequently suggest that you lie — particularly in this section. Do not lie. When fraudulent information is uncovered, often the recruit is the only one punished. Your recruiter is selling something. Many of the promises are simply not true.
The recruiter will probably emphasize the high-tech, state-of-the-art, sophisticated equipment that you will get to work with. True, some soldiers are trained for the highly skilled jobs.
Generally, however, those jobs go to the soldier who was already trained , educated, and technically skilled before joining the military. Many of the high-skill jobs will go to soldiers who already have at least two years of college.
And often the high-tech work is done by civilian contractors who have the necessary training and skills. In reality, few military assignments could be described as high-tech , although many of the jobs sound high-tech.
For instance, one U. The armed forces simply do not have the time, the need, or the resources to train many recruits for highly skilled work. Above all, the military exists for war. It is, therefore, not likely that you will be able to transfer expertise gained in the military to a civilian career. A study from The Ohio State University showed that only 12 percent of the men and 6 percent of the women in a sample group made any use of their military skills in a civilian job.
Yet to receive that amount of money, you must accept a hard-to-fill military job category; you must complete your term of enlistment, and you must receive a good discharge. Even if you meet all these criteria, your commander may decide that you are still ineligible for some or all of the money. Soldiers who decide that they are unable to attend school loose all the money.
Between the rising costs of higher education and the multiple restrictions the army places on scholarship monies, many soldiers find that the money they do receive from the military is not enough to afford to go to college.
Few soldiers find the educational opportunities the military claims to provide. The military has policies to overcome racism in its ranks. Despite its authoritarian structure it has not succeeded. The military comprises the Navy, U. The U. Army is the No. People who join the U.
Army enjoy great benefits, and if they enlisted early enough can still go on to normal civilian life after serving in the U. In this article, we will explain some benefits of joining the U. There are many career benefits in joining the U. These benefits include:. Army is one of the best places in the world to learn skills that matter in real life and also applies to the workplace. They are known not only to be a highly disciplined organization but they know how to ingrain such attributes into their soldiers.
Valuable skills that apply to the workplace are taught in the U. One of the biggest skills the military is known to instill in their soldiers is discipline. Discipline is the ability to follow instructions while carrying out an assignment. This is a skill needed in the workplace for effective delivery of job assignments. Another notable skill is teamwork; in the U. Army, soldiers understand that the life of each team member depends on how well each person delivers their part of the job assignment.
Other skills learned in the U. Army include precision, accountability, leadership and communication skills. The remuneration, or take-home pay, of U. Army personnel is often misunderstood because people focus on basic pay.
Most people who don't understand how the pay is structured think it's a low-paying job. In the U. Army, the pay structure is different. There are components of the pay that aren't obvious to one's eyes. Remuneration in the U. Army is divided into four different types:. The total compensation of U. Army personnel, when compared to that of a civilian worker of the same qualifications, is higher. One of the most crucial benefits of joining the U. Army is the opportunity to go to school without the crushing debt burden of student loans.
According to a Pew research, one-third of adult Americans under the age of 30 have a student loan debt.
0コメント