Problems getting Conditional Release?

[SgtDoc]

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I am prior active duty (finished my 5 years in December) and thinking of joining the national guard. I want to go to USUHS next year (start Fall 09). Of course, I would need a conditional release. I spoke to the guard, and they said it has never been an issue, but of course they can't guarantee anything. Has anyone experienced problems getting a conditional release?

 

[alpha62]

Bro, if you are going to leave you can do one of a few things. Do a "try one". Then when its up go to school. Or, dont join and just enjoy not doing anything till school starts. Most units coke and joke anyway and it will be a few mos before you get into the swing of things and anyone gets to know you enough to decide whether or not you get a conditional release. Plus, you dont know when you will get deployed. Best bet is the try one and change your MOS so that you can dictate when you want to go to MOS school. If you go in under your same MOS you are ready to deploy. A unit worth its salt will not tell you when they are deploying. If they did, you wouldnt join. Plus its no how do you say...kosher? hehehehe.

I was a reservist for 20 years. I used to just call up St. Louis and ask for TDY.
It was fun in those days and my civ job couldn't do squat about it and it was a nice break.

I've done " try one " I've done guard, I've done IRR. Those were the good old days.

DON'T TRY THIS NOW OR AT HOME KIDS ! These days, it's just too screwed up. You get into the system, they drop a warning order and that's it. You are stop lossed friend, way, way past your " try one "

You'll get stuck in a perpetual stop loss cycle that may take years for you to eventually wiggle out of.

The new rules are... they're ain't now rules. They'll do what ever they want.

 

[SgtDoc]

It's just so tempting, because my state national guard pays for all tuition/books etc. Also, they only deploy 1 out of every 6 years, and they just got back about a year ago. I'm not worried about deployment, just having them not do a conditional release. I would love to hear from people who were in the guard/reserves who had to go through this.

 

[SgtDoc]

Alpha is absolutely right.

But your post was pretty much the opposite?

 

[SgtDoc]

Thank you for your input, I appreciate it. I think you're right in that it totally depends on the unit. I think one thing that will help is I plan to do Army, so I won't be switching branches when the time comes to go to school. I figure I'm more of use to them as a full time doctor than a part time guard guy.

 

[73BARMYPgsp]

I was in the Guard for exaclty 1 year of a 6 year commitment (after a "try one" and 4 years AD) and when I got HPSP they just said "cool, here is your release." I even got a $15,000 bonus for signing with them (after the "try one" year) and they let me go, no questions asked. Guess it depends on the unit.

 

[SgtDoc]

I was in the Guard for exaclty 1 year of a 6 year commitment (after a "try one" and 4 years AD) and when I got HPSP they just said "cool, here is your release." I even got a $15,000 bonus for signing with them (after the "try one" year) and they let me go, no questions asked. Guess it depends on the unit.

That is encouraging. My unit said that after 9 months I could get a release, which I wouldn't even need until summer 2009. We've got a good deal here, the guard pays for all books and tuition and there's a $10k bonus right now.