According to my understanding, the marine option scholarship includes a four year active duty commitment followed by a four year reserve commitment. Once your first four years of active duty are up, can you continue to serve active duty instead of in the reserves? On the other hand, could you transfer to active duty in a different branch instead of be in the marine reserves?
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Typically not hard to remain on Active Duty at that point as long as promotion points are met which is not too difficult for O1-O3.
Officers "transferring" to another branch is neither easy nor common.
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DS was NROTC-MO. He's been on active duty for six years with another year to complete what he needs for the GI Bill. He will almost certainly stay at least another three years beyond that, and as long as they continue to give him interesting and challenging assignments I expect much longer still.
A somewhat related GI Bill question. My DS was also NROTC-MO. He will complete his 4 years ADSO next July. His unit will be deployed at that time and will not return until in the fall. So even if he gets out to return to school after his initial commitment, he will have 4 years plus 3-4 months AD. Any insight if he will start accruing GI Bill entitlement at the 4 yr. mark or whether that will all be considered part of his ROTC ADSO since he will need to complete the full deployment?
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The four year mark is when he has repaid his original scholarship. I'm not sure if he can accrue 3-4 months worth of GI Bill entitlements. One of the reasons DS stayed in the 3 years was to get full GI Bill benefits. I would expect your son to be knowledgeable about this, or can find out.
Thanks for the input. Yes, he's looking into it. Just found out this week that his expected deployment of Oct. will now not be until May. He asked us about it because my spouse is retired Marine and had GI Bill benefits. Unless things have changed dramatically in recent years, GI Bill-related questions are often hard to get answered--because eligibility is determined by the VA looking at service records, the VA refers you to the USMC personnel and the personnel tells you it's the VA you need to ask. Thought maybe someone may have previously encountered this scenario.
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Here is the current VA guidelines for Post 9-11 GI Bill Beneficiaries. It starts at 90 day AD and goes up to three years for full benefits (after any ADSO). Hope it helps!
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Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33) | Veterans Affairs
The Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33) helps you pay for school or job training. If you’ve served on active duty after September 10, 2001, you may qualify for the Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33). Find out if you can get this education benefit.
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Re: Recent thread about Navy's inability to retain SWO'sHere is the current VA guidelines for Post 9-11 GI Bill Beneficiaries. It starts at 90 day AD and goes up to three years for full benefits (after any ADSO). Hope it helps!
Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33) | Veterans Affairs
The Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33) helps you pay for school or job training. If you’ve served on active duty after September 10, 2001, you may qualify for the Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33). Find out if you can get this education benefit.
Is it any wonder? And it's not limited to the Navy.
My DS, AROTC O-3, is the same vintage as @kinnem 's DS. He also just extended in the past year on account of an ADSO. I'm not exactly comfortable hearing it, but he says "What graduate programs are you looking at?" is a frequent topic of conversation among his cohort...and we're not talking online degrees.
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Has he looked at pursuing a Master's while serving as an NROTC MOI? I don't think our kids will find better opportunities outside of the military, but I guess it depends on what you're doing at the time.
I think you're absolutely right, but
I think my among my son's cohort, it is contingency planning in case the assignments are no longer interesting and challenging. I wouldn't presume to know the Marine Corps, but I hear that O-4 can be kind of a drag on the Army side. Not everyone can be an FAO or White House Fellow.
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Yeah. Always good to have contingency plans. I know DS has them.
With his good looks I'm wondering if the GI Bill would pay for acting school.
You know, George Clooney and Tom Cruise can't live forever.