@bossman9696
You might have unwittingly invited some of this speculation. If you truly wanted to keep your post as short as possible, you might have said “I’m in my 4th year AFROTC, non-scholarship, due to graduate in Fall 2018. For personal reasons, I want to pursue a career outside the military. After initiating the disenrollment process, I have been told I have to serve a 2-year enlistment. I owe only $6k. What options do I have for appeal? Thank you for any advice.”
The mention of your big social media following and the multi six-figure business you have built around it is not germane to the issue, and in the flattened medium of an anonymous Internet forum, perhaps conveyed hubris you did not intend.
I disagree with your comment on how he should have stated his case. Sure if he was making a his case in a courtroom or in front of a board, I would agree keeping it short and direct would bet he best course. However, here on the forum, the more detail the better. Even if it makes him look him look bad. I can guarantee you, the next post after asking his original question would have been , what are the personal reasons. There is a difference between saying I have to stay home, support my sick mother as my father died and and their is no one else to take care of her and I figured out how to make tons of money on the internet. I have no idea if either story is good or bad in terms on how the AF would react, but if you are going to ask advice or better yet give advice, you may as know as much of the story as possible. I guess if the only advise is to get a lawyer, I guess we dont need any details.
Honestly, we don't need to know the details. He signed paperwork when he became a POC. That is the end of subject. It is a legally binding contract, and he was over 18. He needs to hire an attorney that knows military law to get out of serving 2 yrs enlisted.
Again, end of subject...read the fine print on the paperwork you signed the beginning of your AS300 yr. If you want to vent, go for it, we will be here, but in the end most of us will say exactly what we are saying now.
One thing nobody has approached yet is security clearance. The fact is if he got a TS, that already cost the AF thousands of dollars, and it is valid for 5 yrs. They want that money back and the way they are going to do it is making him go enlisted.
~ He can say he is doing his own business, but if it fails within a yr, he can go gov or contractor job and have that clearance which the AF paid. In essence, and in their eyes they paid out in advance with the belief you will work for them, but you said...sorry, I have a better option and so, suck it up, and obtw thanks for that security clearance which costs alot so I can use it to my advantage for a new job.
Like I said you probably don't want to read my opinion, because I am being brutally honest. You signed a contract as a POC. You are the one that is breaking it, not the AF. The AF is willing to fulfill their end of the bargain, by commissioning you, but you are not wanting to fulfill your end of the bargain by serving.
