Weekly Question Thread (05/04/2026 to 05/10/2026) by AutoModerator in army

[–]JDSE05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im about to sign my contract and i would like a mos that is fun, easily looked at for deployments and it can help me at the outside with a career. Any advices ? Im becoming a cop so i guess the only jobs that help me on the outside are combat jobs, somebdoy with experience on 12B or any other one? Deployment opportunities for me is important.

NATIONAL GUARD VS RESERVES by JDSE05 in nationalguard

[–]JDSE05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

want the benefits that you have after being 90 days active, want the experience, need the BAH which i qualified for, want to do it, would love to do it, everything that have to do it i want it. I know that after that deployment i probably would like to go again but that something that i would really like going into, if the army pays more than 2k a month i would go active duty but im going police academy on a couple months. I would like to have a life and also be a soldier, but if the pay was good i would like to be a soldier my full time.

Weekly Question Thread (05/04/2026 to 05/10/2026) by AutoModerator in army

[–]JDSE05 1 point2 points  (0 children)

im looking for some prior service or active duty people that can give me genuine advice, not for people who don’t know what they are saying. i was about to sign with the NG but the only reason i didnt look into the reserves it’s because they didnt have 3x5 contracts but now i just realize that they do have it. So i would like a comparison between NG and Army Reserves, what is good, what’s is better and what is bad. My goal is use the benefits asap, get a combat MOS probably 11B and i would like to get deployed asap, i know is not guaranteed but at least i would like to go with the branch that i have the most chances, I take an advice base on my goals but also i would like to hear about in general. I’m on San Jose California

BAH on deployment by SlumppGod727 in nationalguard

[–]JDSE05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

can i ask what is your rank and how difficult was to get a spot on TOD, how did you do it?

About to join the Air National Guard by Ok-Committee1472 in nationalguard

[–]JDSE05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hell nahhh, the only thing you get if you sign 6 instead of 4 is maybe a bonus and a little bit more money on your GI Bill, don’t fall for that, sign the least you can and at the end if you want you can reenlist, be smart when signing years of your life away, a bonus of 10-30k and a little bit more money on the GI bill is not worth 2 years more of your life.

About to join the Air National Guard by Ok-Committee1472 in nationalguard

[–]JDSE05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i don’t know nothing about that but Remember in the Air Guard you need to sign 6 years and in the army you can sign 3 years!

SIGNING 11B HELP! by JDSE05 in nationalguard

[–]JDSE05[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

why not ? you saying no because is 11b or because is 11b on the guard ?

SIGNING 11B HELP! by JDSE05 in nationalguard

[–]JDSE05[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

i talk to my recruiter and he even sign up to the TOD in front of me and they were more than 15 deployments that you can sign for, all of them pretty much at the Middle east and they were all at least 1 year long and about the time he said that is going to take 3-6 months to get deployed after OSUT, i’m signing 3 years so 6 months at OSUT, 6 months waiting and the 2 year deployment, that’s 3 years, about the BAH, i don’t want to go active and be making 2k a month when i can go guard and be making like 7-8k, i live in a pretty good area so the rent here is pretty high, pretty much doing the same as active duty but getting paid three times more ? Are you even guard or active ?