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Army national guard
You dont have to answer all of these,, just the ones you may know. I am thinking of going into the army national guard.
Could someone give me information on this.
1) If you're a junior your allowed to go the summer between your junior and senior year- How long is it for? (basic training)
2. Also what do you do in basic training?
3. Whats the odds of getting sent away?
4. The average you'd get paid and when do you get paid?
5. Useful information you may have
Information to help you answer these.. I am going for nursing, and I am going for only 2 years.
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Well I was Active, and not NG myself. However, I'll give it a go anyways.
1. Normally basic by itself is 8 weeks. However, a lot of MOS's roll basic and AIT together (OSUT-One Station Unit Training if I remember right) and that can be even longer. My guess for you though is 8 weeks.
2. Well, its the Basic stuff. Marksmenship, physical fitness, bivouac, etc etc. A big part of this is just the Drills out to "Break you down and build you back up". But remember that Basic can vary a great deal; some people go through hell, while others feel theirs wasn't too bad at all. I went through hell, but it was fun in the end.
3. Sent away? By this do you mean deployed? Well if so, I would first assume that you wont get sent before your training is finished, and I would think you wont get your MOS specific stuff until after you graduate. Then once you finish your training, its all about "The needs of the Army". If they need people of your MOS deployed, then you prob will be. Remember that a lot of people are on their 2nd or 3rd deployment in Iraq/Afghanistan atm, and that retention is difficult...so you might very well get sent as a replacement. I would say COUNT on this happening, that way if you DONT get deployed, then hey even better.
4. I am assuming that since you are going in as a nurse, and doing vanilla basic, that you will be enlisted, though I could be wrong. But the pay is a LOT better now then it was 10 or so years ago. For example, I think that as an E-4 with 4 years I made like $1,000 to $1,200 a month (but its been awhile and I am not going to go dig my paperwork out lol), and I'd be making even more nowadays.
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at the bottom is a link to the complete pay scale in PDf format.
I am also unfamiliar with how the NG pays, it could be different as it isn't full-time unless activated and I was Active Army myself. You could ask your recruiter.
5. Well, its nice to only have a 2 year stint, though I have heard that they are offering some decent signing bonuses for longer enlistments. I would say that you need to make 100% sure that when they tell you 'nurse', they aren't referring to 'medic'...thats completely different. Also remember, that recruiters sometimes leave out facts and smudge things a little bit....recruiters aren't recruiters by trade normally, they are some poor soldier who simply came down on orders for recruitment, and now have to pander to kids to get them to sign up and often have a quota to meet. If I remember right, soldiers who do poorly recruiting can get a letter of discipline in their records and thus was a hated duty, though this could have been a rumor. I can remember several NCO's I knew who were furious they got recruiter duty and had to move to some podunk town rather than doing what they were trained to do. Dont be intimidated by your recruiters, or let yourself be hassled, ask questions and dont be afraid to say no if you arent interested.
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