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Anyone with current or prior experience with the Army National Guard?
I am thinking of joining. I was a Marine (long long ago) so I have prior military experience as an enlisted. I have started filling out the application for the Army National Guard online and would be planning to go the officer route (have my degree). Anyone have a spouse or themselves in the National Guard? I have been sitting on the application for a bit. I'm still hesitant to finish it.
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Re: Anyone with current or prior experience with the Army National Guard?
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There are pros and cons. As I said before, he joined the Guard so that he could actually finish his bachelor's degree. When he was active duty, every time he would enroll in classes, he would get deployed. So he left active duty, joined the Guard, and enrolled in school full-time. Then Afghanistan and Iraq happened and he ended up getting deployed again, twice. He was able to finish his degree through online classes while deployed, though. Between the GI bill and NG tuition assistance, both his undergrad degree and masters degree will be almost free, so that's definitely a plus. He plans to serve his 20 years for the pension and medical benefits, which will definitely give us more stability in retirement.
The biggest drawback would be the interference in his civilian career. If it were just the one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but with the deployments thrown in he's definitely not climbed the ladder as quickly as he could have. It seems like every time he gets to a position with some potential, he has to leave for school or training or mob. It's frustrating, but he's only got three years to go before he can retire.
Are they still deploying? That's one thing that worries me. I got out a few months before everyone started being deployed to Iraq. I wanted to go reserves but being a new and single mom stopped me because of the deployments. Now that my kid is older and I'm remarried I think she can handle it better. I definitely don't like the 18 month deployment thing though. I can handle six months. So there's a lot of schooling? I know if I wanted to change MOS' then I'd be off to school but other than that and OCS I didn't think there was more. I really was thinking it was only one weekend a month and two weeks a year type thing.
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There are still schools, training and such. There are certain schools as officers and NCOs that you go to in order to be promoted. You have those school in AD as well as the Reserves or Guard. You also have corespondence classes to take in your free time. Most of the time, annual training is 2 weeks. I have seen it go for 3 or 4 weeks. Sometimes, you are able to do a home station AT where you work in your unit's office.
I was in the Reserves, but most of our officers worked way more than just one weekend a month. The Guard and Reserves still deploy. The average is one year gone, three years home. It can change though. Also, with the Guard, you can be activated to work due to natural disasters and such. If there is a flood, fires, what ever, your unit may be called up to assist.
LMAO. Uh, yes. They are very much so still deploying. At least here, the Guard deploys as much, if not more often than, the Reserves. Unless things change, count on about every two years. Most deployments are under a year from going away ceremony to leave for the mob station to welcome home ceremony (at least for the units here). We did have one unit that was unfortunately gone for 22 months if they were part of the advance party, but that was a one time thing.
There's always school. If you want to ever get promoted, you will have to attend some. There is also the possibility of being called up for natural disasters as well.
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9 years next week. It's been a LONG time. If only I would have stayed. I'd be retiring in 7 years. *sigh*
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