Howdy,
Not exactly sure where this should go, but I figured since this is the Florida thread I would post it here.
I am prior service Army and I have been looking for ways to go back into the military as an Officer. I looked into the Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and couldn't find any programs that didn't seem like a bear to get into. I stumbled upon the Army National Guard's 18 month State OCS program about a week ago. For those of you like me who had never heard of this program i will give you guys a quick rundown.
Let me first mention that if you are concerned about getting deployed during your training, don't be. The NG has a policy in place that doesn't allow people in OCS training, or who aren't Job-specific qualified to get deployed. Now, if you are prior service and have served in Southwest Asia you also have a two year stabilization period in which you can't get deployed. I was skeptical at first about this, but the recruiter printed a copy of it out for me and let me have it.
If you have served before you most likely will not have to redo basic training. If you are like me you will enlist as an O9S, which is basically an enlistment solely for the purpose of becoming an Officer.
The program starts in March and from March to June/July you will drill as an Officer Candidate for two days out of the month. In June or July you will then attend a two week long Officer candidate school and after completion you will return home and continue the two day a month OCS training until June/July of the next year. That June or July you will once again go to the two week training and then after that you will be commissioned an Officer in the Florida Army National Guard.
I am wanting to branch Military Intelligence, and my recruiter is telling me that he is going to put me into an MI unit prior to going to OCS so I can basically be guaranteed the MI slot.
Now, you may be asking yourself, what are the qualifications to get this, well, they aren't too horribly bad.
This page http://www.1800goguard.com/training/ocs.php has information on the requirements and it also has a little more info on the program. If you need more info the website has a page to request more on your own.
I just wanted to post this so those who wanted to serve in the military initially or again would know of this option. I have been looking into ways to go back in for the past two years and none of them seem as good as this one.
Not exactly sure where this should go, but I figured since this is the Florida thread I would post it here.
I am prior service Army and I have been looking for ways to go back into the military as an Officer. I looked into the Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and couldn't find any programs that didn't seem like a bear to get into. I stumbled upon the Army National Guard's 18 month State OCS program about a week ago. For those of you like me who had never heard of this program i will give you guys a quick rundown.
Let me first mention that if you are concerned about getting deployed during your training, don't be. The NG has a policy in place that doesn't allow people in OCS training, or who aren't Job-specific qualified to get deployed. Now, if you are prior service and have served in Southwest Asia you also have a two year stabilization period in which you can't get deployed. I was skeptical at first about this, but the recruiter printed a copy of it out for me and let me have it.
If you have served before you most likely will not have to redo basic training. If you are like me you will enlist as an O9S, which is basically an enlistment solely for the purpose of becoming an Officer.
The program starts in March and from March to June/July you will drill as an Officer Candidate for two days out of the month. In June or July you will then attend a two week long Officer candidate school and after completion you will return home and continue the two day a month OCS training until June/July of the next year. That June or July you will once again go to the two week training and then after that you will be commissioned an Officer in the Florida Army National Guard.
I am wanting to branch Military Intelligence, and my recruiter is telling me that he is going to put me into an MI unit prior to going to OCS so I can basically be guaranteed the MI slot.
Now, you may be asking yourself, what are the qualifications to get this, well, they aren't too horribly bad.
This page http://www.1800goguard.com/training/ocs.php has information on the requirements and it also has a little more info on the program. If you need more info the website has a page to request more on your own.
I just wanted to post this so those who wanted to serve in the military initially or again would know of this option. I have been looking into ways to go back in for the past two years and none of them seem as good as this one.
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