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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
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My son is a reservist for now. He leaves for boot camp in a week. Then he has 27 weeks of A school. I have a lot of questions about what happens after for that for reservists. Also, he may try to go active at some point if possible. His recruiter was unclear regarding education after A school for reservists.
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Permalink Reply by BrendanSMom(Billie Jo) on
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First of all welcome but I can't believe I'm welcoming you I haven't been here for soooo long. But anyway, what is your son's rate? When I first came on board as a mother which is about 5 years my son's contract will be up soon as an active reservist at 6 years. It sounds like you were told the same thing we were many years ago. Which is if you join as a reservist and go through A school then C school you could "possibly" go/change over to active then. Well it depends on the rate and the billets they nee to fill and right now the budget. Debbie Downer here I've been disappointed as a mom that he was able to choose active vs. reserve without my advise but it is what it is. He has had a couple voluntary deployments but you have to be very proactive and search for those. Like I said his contact is almost up and he has had no mandatory deployments his rate was IS he went to A school but not C school so he switched to bosenmate
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Permalink Reply by Mitch's_mom on
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Thank you so much for replying. His rate is GM (Gunners Mate). Did your son ever get to use the GI Bill for college? They told him he would be able to go active after fulfilling 2 years of his 6 year reservist contract. He was planning on going to school during that time. He was told he could go to school after 90 days, that's why he chose this route. What would you say were the "positives" he took out of his 6 year Navy experience?
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