Careers: Military--Army, Navy, Airforce, Marines, Coast Guard/switching from Marines to another branch

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Hi, my husband is currently a Marine. His EAS is
Dec. 15th of this year. He is talking about getting out mainly due to the fact that we are so far away from home. Trying to get him to look into maybe switch over to another branch (Army) and try to get station at
Fort Bragg (from North Carolina) or in the area. Is their alot he would have to do to switch over? Do he have to go through boot camp again? Is it at all possible to go from Marine to Army(or other branch). His MOS right now is Airframes, I know he might have to change that but trying to see what's the possibilites?   
Hope you can help?

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Gina:

  He could always request to be stationed at Camp Lejeune, which is also in North Carolina, or Cherry Point.  If he is Airframes, then Cherry Point would be the most likely place he could go to.  If his MOS is fixed wing airframes, then there probably isn't too much at Bragg he could do in the Army unless he changed his MOS.  

 All he'd have to do to enlist into the Army would be to talk to an Active duty Army recruiter once he is discharged from the Marines, and do a re-enlistment.  He wouldnt' have to do a boot camp again, once you do USMC recruit training you don't have to do anyone elses.  I'm sure the Army would station him at Bragg if that is where he wanted to go and something was available.  Bragg is a big post, there are all sorts of jobs there.  You might check out the army website or go to www.about.com and enter "Army enlistment" or some similar search term, there is all sorts of information located in both places.

Jason

Careers: Military--Army, Navy, Airforce, Marines, Coast Guard

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