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my boyfriend recently left for marine bootcamp in parris island. I was wondering what his possiblities of being called for active duty are considering he is in the reserves. He left july 24th and will be done with bootcamp and MOS by january, he is going to colleg when he returns and if he obtains his required credits he wants to go to officer school next summer. Do you know what his chances of being called to active duty are?
Hi Nicole,
I wish I could answer your question, but I can't.
The vast majority of Marine Corps Reserve deployments are not based on deploying an individual member, but rather on deploying an entire unit.
In other words, he would normally be selected for deployment with the Reserve unit he is assigned to.
So, if the Reserve unit he is assigned to recently returned from deployment, he would not likely be selected to deploy until that unit was re-scheduled for another deployment in the future (Marine Corps Reserve units average being deployed about every four years).
On the other hand, if the Reserve unit he is assigned to is scheduled to deploy in the near future after he returns from MOS-training, he will likely deploy with his unit.
For more information about the United States Military, feel free to visit my military information website at: http://usmilitary.about.com
Hope this helps!
Rod Powers
http://usmilitary.about.com
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Rod Powers is considered one of the premire experts about U.S. Military career information on the planet. He has more than 30,000 articles about U.S. Military career information on the About.com U.S. Military Careers Information website at: http://usmilitary.about.com. Additionally, he is the author of "ASVAB for Dummies," "ASVAB AFQT for Dummies," (available in Dec 2009), and "Veteran Benefits for Dummies," all published by Wiley Publishing. He is also the author of "Barrons' Guide to Officer Candidate School Tests," published by Barron's Educational Series.
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Rod Powers is a retired Air Force first sergeant, with 23 years of active duty service, 11 of those years as an Air Force First Sergeant. He has helped thousands of military members, recruits, and military applicants since he took over the About.com U.S Military Careers Information site in 1999. He has a reputation for "telling it like it is," so questions may not be answered based on "what you want to hear," but will be answered based of the bast available information, concerning the service/situation.
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Rod is a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Noncommissioned Officers Academy, the Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy, and the Air Force First Sergeant Academy. He also holds an Associates Degree in Personnel Administration from the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF).
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