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As a Marine Brat myself I'll tell you that re-enlistment is a hard time. A) If you change your MOS you're not with the same guys. Sometimes that's okay, sometimes it's really not. During a war, and right after, a lot of guys don't want to form new attachments, they want to stick with and look after their buddies.
B) Sometimes it's the pay cut, sometimes it's the retraining, sometimes it's the fact that you spent how many goddamned years becoming the best at this and now you have to become the best at some other thing you've never heard about or given a rats ass for.
C) Like I said, the most common thing they'll ask you to 'fall back' to with an MOS change, especially if they like you or like the image you present, is recruiter. And sometimes they won't give you a choice. The only thing you get to ask is are you recruiting the fresh faced idiots, or trying to keep in the idiots who have seen too much and been too far and and just want to go home to their families and a big heavy bottle. (Those are 'Reserve Recruiters' and they try and get people not to retire or discharge, but instead go on 'non-active duty' which means something *like* a normal life, but if the shit hits the fan they're the first guys re-called to the bases and flack jackets before we have to start a draft)
D) Is he out? Maybe he's a reservist. That specialty doesn't go away just because you don't need it anymore and it's always better to have an on-call guy.
Anything else you wanna know, I may not have the answers but I'll have some pithy advice.
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As a Marine Brat myself I'll tell you that re-enlistment is a hard time. A) If you change your MOS you're not with the same guys. Sometimes that's okay, sometimes it's really not. During a war, and right after, a lot of guys don't want to form new attachments, they want to stick with and look after their buddies.
B) Sometimes it's the pay cut, sometimes it's the retraining, sometimes it's the fact that you spent how many goddamned years becoming the best at this and now you have to become the best at some other thing you've never heard about or given a rats ass for.
C) Like I said, the most common thing they'll ask you to 'fall back' to with an MOS change, especially if they like you or like the image you present, is recruiter. And sometimes they won't give you a choice. The only thing you get to ask is are you recruiting the fresh faced idiots, or trying to keep in the idiots who have seen too much and been too far and and just want to go home to their families and a big heavy bottle. (Those are 'Reserve Recruiters' and they try and get people not to retire or discharge, but instead go on 'non-active duty' which means something *like* a normal life, but if the shit hits the fan they're the first guys re-called to the bases and flack jackets before we have to start a draft)
D) Is he out? Maybe he's a reservist. That specialty doesn't go away just because you don't need it anymore and it's always better to have an on-call guy.
Anything else you wanna know, I may not have the answers but I'll have some pithy advice.