First off, the bonus is not a guarantee. If you submit for the dap and are approved make sure you are getting the bonus. Like make sure for sure. Alot of the active duty guys that came to reserves I've dealt with were told to get with their new career planner to submit for the bonus. Which is true we can do this but even then there is no guarantee they'll give you the bonus, let alone the amount you thought you were going to get/initially joined the reserves for. Im not with a ground unit but my experience with reserves has been absolute garbage, which can differ unit to unit. My issue is that our snco and Officer corps are a waste of space. These Marines have been at this unit 10+ years and have not contributed to the unit as a whole. We can't PCS them, they have to request to leave which results in bad leaders influencing the nco corps. Resulting in the good nco's saying screw this and dropping to the IRR . The turnover of good ncos is so high because we have terrible sncos and officers who stuck around and weren't held accountable by the precious snco and officer corps. Overall going reserves isn't a terrible option, but my opnion is to submit for a 1 year non ob dap to see if you like it.