For more information on joining the Air Guard as a Student or Newcomer, download our brochure. Your path to the Air Guard will be unique to you. However, the requirements below should give you an idea of what's ahead based on your qualifications and experience. Those interested in joining the Air Guard who have never served before must be between the ages of 17 and If you would like to be an Officer, you must have a college degree or be close to graduating to apply.
As an Officer in the Air Guard you'll develop leadership skills you can't get in the civilian world. Air Guard applicants must pass a rigorous background check before they can be accepted into the Air Guard. Certain body art may not be allowed based on size, location, and content.
Your recruiter will make the final decision. Great team, family-focused, leadership is knowledgeable and experienced in the field, keeps me focused on staying at the top of my game and always striving for excellence. Jobs at Air National Guard. Electrical Apprentice. Maintenance Mechanic. Heavy Equipment Operator. I would say that if you want to join the military this would be the best bet to go.
The pay is decent depending on the career you choose. Everything always seems in flux and often in chaos. Constant push to do more and take on more roles while trying to keep a personal life. It's the military so some of this is to be expected but one wonders how much money and manpower is wasted on constant change. Pros Great benefits, good pay.
Cons Management is spotty at best, jobs often are tedious, constant change is frustrating. Great for college students and people just wanting to serve their country while still having their regular everyday lives. Pros Military benefits. Get benefits and pay. Great leaders and great coworkers. The take care of your and your family. It the military so you get great training and great skills for life. Great place to work if you do your job. Great coworkers and mission. Alot of opportunities if your willing to move and take different positions.
You are eligible for cheaper health insurance and other great benefits. Pretty easy place to work and good people to work with. It is often hard to find a good work life balance unfortunately and the management having complete control of any processes it hampers mission effectiveness. So very relaxing and to the point when it comes to your work.
Kind of a civilian environment with uniforms. Pros State benefits, continued or initial service, healthcare. I absolutely recommend it for anyone who needs a push in the right direction! However, I really enjoyed my time here! Pros Good food at bootcamp! Cons Not paid enough for what you do.
Overall the air guard is a great place to be if you are single and have no kids. You get the opportunity to travel, and truly experience life. Pros Benefits of health, and life insurance. Educational benefits and travel. They offer a lot of opportunities if you want to go to school and etc. If you have drive to succeed and learn you can go very far. Sometimes a dog and pony show, but its the military Overall a great experience in 6 years.
Pros Great sense of pride in work. Cons Too much micromanagement, lack of trust in NCOs. This usually happens when someone does something that results in temporary disqualification from their normal job, or if someone volunteers for a special job or project. While both programs are available, most enlist under the Guaranteed Job program. Again, whether or not you will be offered the job you want depends upon your qualifications, and the needs of the service.
An example would be the Nuclear Program. These programs generally require higher ASVAB line scores, and require a longer service commitment, but offer accelerated promotions, greater training opportunities, and higher enlistment bonuses. Very, very few Marine applicants get a guaranteed job mostly those with college degrees or high ASVAB scores, applying for certain, designated technical specialties. MOS job is a distant second. Coast Guard. A few schools and therefore jobs are offered during basic training.
As well as offering the fewest guaranteed jobs, the Coast Guard has the fewest overall jobs about 23 of any of the services. On the plus side, for the most part, all of the Coast Guard jobs directly relate to a civilian occupation. Reserves and National Guard. This is because, unlike the active duty forces, who recruit for available slots all over the world, Guard and Reserve recruiters recruit for specific unit vacancies in their local areas.
Regardless of what some of the military recruiting commercials on TV indicate, the military is not a job-placement agency. This is especially true for jobs that everyone wants like computer programming , or jobs that only have a few people assigned.
For example, the Air Force has over 22, Security Forces cops assigned. Compare that to the physical therapist specialists authorized, and you can see that the chances of jobs being open for Security Forces is several dozens of times greater than openings for physical therapists.
If you are focused on only one or two job possibilities, you are likely to be disappointed. This may or may not be true. Each of the services have different requirements when it comes to retraining. In the Army and Air Force, one must usually serve a minimum amount of time usually 36 months for a 4-year enlistment and agree to re-enlist to be eligible for retraining.
Even then, approval is based upon individual circumstances, and the needs of the service. For all of the services, if the job you are serving in is extremely short-manned, or if the job you want to re-train into is over-manned, your retraining application is not likely to be approved. When you enlist in the DEP, you are actually in the military. You are enlisted in the inactive reserves, and are legally and morally bound by your enlistment contract.
When you sign on the dotted line in the National Guard, you immediately become a member of your National Guard Unit.
This is a binding contract, and if the military wanted to, they could prosecute you for not shipping out on the date specified on the contract. However, current regulations and policies require the military services to discharge you from the DEP, if — at any time before shipping out — you apply to be released from the contract the request should be in writing and should state the reason you wish to be discharged from the DEP. In fact, the only bad consequences to dropping out of the DEP, is that if you later want to enlist in that same service, it will be on THEIR terms, not yours.
Most services have policies that require a waiver processing for recruits who previously dropped out of DEP of their service. That being said, if you request a discharge from the DEP, expect your recruiter to be justifiably angry. See The Delayed Enlistment Program for more detailed information. This is the contract that is used for military enlistments and re-enlistments. Of all the paperwork you signed during the process to join the military, this is the most important document.
See Part 3 of this series for more information about the DEP. In fact, the bottom of the very first page of the enlistment contract contains the following clause:.
The agreements in this section and attached annex es are all the promises made to me by the Government. This is because military members are already entitled to it by law. For example, medical care, base pay, and the Montgomery G. Second, those enlisting on active duty will have at least two enlistment contracts — the initial contract for the Delayed Enlistment Program, and a final contract that one will sign on the day they go to MEPS to ship out to basic training.
Enlistment Periods. Thought you were enlisting for four years? Think again. It may surprise you to learn that ALL non-prior service enlistments in the United States Military incurs a total eight year service obligation. When you sign that enlistment contract, you are obligating yourself to the military for a total of eight years.
Paragraph 10a of the enlistment contract states:. Any part of that service not served on active duty must be served in a Reserve Component unless I am sooner discharged.
You serve your four years and get out. This total 8 year service commitment applies whether you enlist on active duty, or join the Reserves or National Guard. The key is, once you join, if there are any conflicts going on, the military can hold you past your normal separation or retirement date.
Up until October , the Army and Navy were the only services that offered active duty enlistments for periods of less than four years. However, because of enlistment shortages, the Army has dramatically expanded slots under this program in and The Air Force and Marine Corps still have little interest in a two-year active duty program.
So, they implemented the very basics and applied many restrictions — you probably have a better chance of hitting the lottery than getting one of the very few National Call to Service slots in these two branches. For example, under the Air Force Plan, the program is limited to one percent of all enlistments about total recruits, out of 37, , and the program is limited to 29 Air Force jobs. The Army and the Navy are the only services which have active duty enlistment options of less than four years, which are not part of the National Call to Service program.
The Army offers enlistment contracts of two years, three years, four years, five years, and six years. Most Army jobs require a minimum enlistment period of four years, and some Army jobs require a minimum enlistment period of five years. The Navy offers a very few two year and three year contracts, where the recruit spends two or three years on active duty, followed by six years in the Active Reserves.
The other services offer four, five, and six year enlistment options The Air Force only offers four and six year enlistments. All Air Force enlisted jobs are available for four-year enlistees.
However, the Air Force will give accelerated promotions for individuals who agree to enlist for six years. They are then promoted to the grade of E-3 Airman First Class upon completion of technical training, or after 20 weeks after basic training graduation whichever occurs first. Six year enlistment options are not open to all jobs, at all times. Most Navy jobs are available for four-year enlistees, but some special programs such as Nuclear Field require a five year enlistment.
These special programs usually offer increased training opportunities, and accelerated promotion. Enlistment Incentives. As I said above, each of the below incentives needs to be included on the enlistment contract or an annex to the contract — otherwise they are not likely to be valid. An enlistment incentive is different than a military benefit in that not everyone is eligible, and it must be in the enlistment contract to be valid.
For example, an enlistment bonus is an enlistment incentive. Not everyone qualifies for an enlistment bonus. It depends on qualifications and job selected. Therefore, to be valid, it must be on the enlistment contract. The Montgomery G. Bill, or Tuition Assistance, or military medical, or amount of base pay, etc.
Incentives are authorized for specific jobs or specific enlistment programs by the Recruiting Command Headquarters for the individual service.
Following are the current enlistment incentives offered by the services. Military benefits will be discussed in later parts of this series.
Enlistment Bonus. Probably the best known of all enlistment incentives is the enlistment bonus. Enlistment bonuses are used to try and convince applicants to sign up into jobs that the service needs really bad. The Air Force and Marine Corps offer the fewest enlistment bonuses. In general, the greater the enlistment bonus, the harder time the service is having finding enough qualified applicants who agree to accept the job.
In most cases, this is for one of three reasons: 1. The job has high entry qualifications ASVAB score, criminal history requirements, medical qualifications, etc.
The job training is extremely difficult and lots of people wash out.
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