You know folks, I’m much less apprehensive about this whole thing than when I quit work for the police academy. Of course I don’t ship for over 5 months so I imagine it will all come slamming down on me as I’m right on top of that day.
Any hooo, that’s it. I’ve got no LEO plans on my plate. The plan was to renew my certificate this summer, and that all seems pointless now. If I have a job to come back to after training then I wont have time to renew it, if I don’t I will have plenty of time to renew then.
A few things observed at MEPS. There was this really lovely woman at the reception center for the recruits. Turns out she was one of the parents of the new solders. I’m old :-(
Second, usually when I go to MEPS I’m the only old guy. They were coming out of the wood work. March 31st is our last day. One guy got royally screwed. He was going active duty with a ship date of October. That’s a no go. Active guys time in starts at ship date. Mine as a reserve starts as soon as I signed. So he now has to find something with an April 30th start date (1 month grace assuming everything else is done with is application). I think he’s SOL.
That’s the one silver lining going on. Now that I’m in I can reach officer by either a direct reserve commission, or I can go OCS. While I still need an age waiver at least I can do it on the inside. I couldn’t do it on the outside. If I don’t get approval then, well, I’ve really reached as far as I can reach anyway.
Not much else. I’m not a LEO MOS, and I’m pretty much shelved my civilian LEO efforts so I’ll just continue to post here like a total wannabe.
One last thing. There was one girl there also wanting the same MOS as myself. When she tried to reserve it yesterday it was gone. Some other jerk took it
Any hooo, that’s it. I’ve got no LEO plans on my plate. The plan was to renew my certificate this summer, and that all seems pointless now. If I have a job to come back to after training then I wont have time to renew it, if I don’t I will have plenty of time to renew then.
A few things observed at MEPS. There was this really lovely woman at the reception center for the recruits. Turns out she was one of the parents of the new solders. I’m old :-(
Second, usually when I go to MEPS I’m the only old guy. They were coming out of the wood work. March 31st is our last day. One guy got royally screwed. He was going active duty with a ship date of October. That’s a no go. Active guys time in starts at ship date. Mine as a reserve starts as soon as I signed. So he now has to find something with an April 30th start date (1 month grace assuming everything else is done with is application). I think he’s SOL.
That’s the one silver lining going on. Now that I’m in I can reach officer by either a direct reserve commission, or I can go OCS. While I still need an age waiver at least I can do it on the inside. I couldn’t do it on the outside. If I don’t get approval then, well, I’ve really reached as far as I can reach anyway.
Not much else. I’m not a LEO MOS, and I’m pretty much shelved my civilian LEO efforts so I’ll just continue to post here like a total wannabe.
One last thing. There was one girl there also wanting the same MOS as myself. When she tried to reserve it yesterday it was gone. Some other jerk took it

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