i plan joing the marines in about a year and 6 months or so. give or take a few months, depends on graduation.
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#1: can you do online college or go through college at all during active duty?
#2: after the 90 days in recruit training, to you get ship to Afghanistan, or japan, or were?
#3: what is the minimum amount of time do you have to sign on for active duty? 1 year 2 years etc?
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also if you first go somewhere to learn your job, how long do you spend there until you shipped into combat? or will you even be put in combat?
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also im in school now, im gonna be attending WYA, which is somthing you probly never herd of, its high school/bootcamp/boarding school. its just to get highschool credits but also if your like me you will get high points or a higher rank in the service. also TECH PREP. its college credits in highschool. does it also rais your pay and rank for the more college credits you get?
p.s. WYA is just the washington one. its in 33 other states. 2 years of school in 5 months, check it out
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thanks for answers, so four years stationed, do you get to go home for any vacation?
this is a copy of my 1st post. i need more answers but every one is going for the top questions so im makeing it the top. haha
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While you are on active duty, you can take online courses or even night classes. This depends greatly on what your MOS (job) is. Some jobs you will have to work around your schedule. Check with universities or colleges you do online schooling with to see if their credits are transferable first.
After boot camp, which is 13 weeks, you go to MCT. MCT is an acronym for Marine Combat Training. Every Marine is considered a rifleman first. You will be trained in more depth for infantry tactics regardless of what you primary job will be. Depending on what your job is will determine how long your school is. Check with a recruiter to see what the MOS school time is. The 03 field (infantry) is 3 months long. After you complete your MOS training, you will be assigned to a unit. Depending on your MOS you could be with a unit for 2 to 4 years. If it’s a 2 year duty station, you will be transferred to another unit.
Enlistment time for active duty is 4 or 6 years. You will have a inactive ready reserve time of 4 or 2 years (depending on your enlistment length) that you serve after completing active duty. This means you can be called back to active duty if needed.
Vacation time or leave, as it’s called depends on when your unit has time to allow you to go home. Usually you can take leave around holidays or in the summer, provided your unit is not deployed.
Deployment to a combat zone is a reality regardless of your job. Deployments of units is based on the needs of Marines in these areas.
Talk to a Marine recruiter about any other education benefits or questions you may have.
USAF Avcom school was six months and EW school almost a year when I Enlisted.
Let me see what i can answer for you.
#1. you can take classes while on active duty, that is what your GI Bill is for.
#2. Normally after basic/boot camp(call it what you will, its hell on earth no matter what) you are normally, but not always, shipped to your duty station where you will stay til your contract is up or you resign. That will happen after your specialized training, for my husband it was called AIT and hes an Army Infantryman.
#3. Im not totally surre about the minimum amount of time, i think its probly 3 yrs. My husband is on a 3 year contract now and i’ve never heard of less.
Going to the school you are in now should raise your rank right away or help you advance ASAP (make sure to ask your recruiter so your not being shammed). Im not so sure about being raised bc of college credits but if you have a degree then you enter at a higher rank.
Vacations- We (in the army) get 2 time to vacation and im sure is simular for the marines. We get 2 weeks leave in the summer and 2 weeks leave around Christmas. We also received 26 days leave after my husband came home from Iraq. If you have a special occasion or a funeral that you would like to attend you just have to ask and depending on your companies schedule they may allow you to take some leave for that also. In the army we have to earn our leave, we get 2.5 days a month so we can only take leave(unless its an emergancy) if we have enough leave days racked up.
all my army friends have said their active duty recruitment was 3 years. Reserves/Guard stuff is longer.
I think army is 10 weeks and marines is 12 weeks for the basic. and after that you still have your job training. and after job training they send you to a unit. With reserves/guard it’s whatever is in your area, i’m not sure how active duty works, I don’t think you have a choice where they send you to. You’ll go to combat or overseas (if your job isn’t a combat arms) when your unit does.
with at least 30 credit hours, I was told you’d be an E3 after graduating recruit training for the Army. I think that’s the same for Marines. I’d check with a marine.
1: Yes. College in the Corps is available. My uncle did it.
#2: After Boot Camp, you will not ship straight out overseas. You have to go to SOI (School Of Infantry) or MCT (Marine Combat Training) it depends on your MOS, then your MOS training, then you get your duty station, then you might get shipped out.
#3: The minimum is 4 years. No less. Then you can re-enlist for another four, on and on.
The length of you job school depends on your job. And could be another 2 months or half a year. Like I said, all depends.
As for the high school/boot camp/boarding school I don’t know if it would actually count towards rank. Not sure though.
And you get 30 days of leave a year. Anything else, shoot me a message.