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Offline EskimoJoe

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12B
« on: May 15, 2013, 10:32:58 PM »
Combat Engineer, Army active duty. Signed the contract last week, leave for basic March next year.

I had been waiting my whole life for that moment.

Just thought I'd share, for those that might remember me.
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Offline xbrit

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Re: 12B
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2013, 10:55:31 PM »
Congrats and best wishes for the future.
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Offline SmokinLoon

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Re: 12B
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2013, 11:01:36 PM »
Congrats and be proud of what you're about to do.  Do what you can to earn the "Sapper" tab, and no not every engineer earns it.   ;)
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Offline RedBull1

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Re: 12B
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2013, 11:07:15 PM »
Congrats man, I'm enlisting next year. I was really considering 12B but decided I'm going to try to go for heli pilot, however chances are by the time I get there next year (18th B-day is in may) all the WOFT positions will be full, so I'd either have to wait until next year or go try to go in as another MOS for a few years until I can reclass and hope a spots open. If I can't initally get into heli's I should be signing as a 31B :)

Conrgatz again! :salute
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Offline Maverick

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Re: 12B
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2013, 11:16:00 AM »
Congrats. Any idea where basic will be yet?
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Offline ozrocker

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Re: 12B
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2013, 01:17:00 PM »
Congrats. BT is a mind game. They don't mind, and you don't matter :rofl

Best Wishes.



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Offline VonMessa

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Re: 12B
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2013, 01:40:37 PM »
Quote from: RedBull1 on May 15, 2013, 11:07:15 PM
Congrats man, I'm enlisting next year. I was really considering 12B but decided I'm going to try to go for heli pilot, however chances are by the time I get there next year (18th B-day is in may) all the WOFT positions will be full, so I'd either have to wait until next year or go try to go in as another MOS for a few years until I can reclass and hope a spots open. If I can't initally get into heli's I should be signing as a 31B :)

Conrgatz again! :salute

You can hope in one hand and crap in the other.

I strongly suggest NOT doing this.

Waiting for the position to open is what you should do, regardless of what they try to talk you into.

Did I mention that it is a bad idea?

You are not obligated to take what they have if you have qualified for a MOS that is not open when you want to enlist.  Their job at MEPS is to fill open slots with warm bodies, not to give you what you want and they will say, and/or try to coerce you to take what they have in any way possible until you relent and agree.

You can tell them "Thanks for the offer, but I think I will wait until the job that I want is available before I commit X years of my life to you"  They know how to get in touch with you.

Switching an MOS is about as easy a finding a bag full of chicken teeth...
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Offline RedBull1

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Re: 12B
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2013, 01:46:00 PM »
Quote from: VonMessa on May 16, 2013, 01:40:37 PM
You can hope in one hand and crap in the other.

I strongly suggest NOT doing this.

Waiting for the position to open is what you should do, regardless of what they try to talk you into.

Did I mention that it is a bad idea?

You are not obligated to take what they have if you have qualified for a MOS that is not open when you want to enlist.  Their job at MEPS is to fill open slots with warm bodies, not to give you what you want and they will say, and/or try to coerce you to take what they have in any way possible until you relent and agree.

You can tell them "Thanks for the offer, but I think I will wait until the job that I want is available before I commit X years of my life to you"  They know how to get in touch with you.

Switching an MOS is about as easy a finding a bag full of chicken teeth...
thanks a lot for the tips Von :salute

Mom and Dad were both in the army, dad for 22 years. I know most of the ins and outs of what the recruiters try to talk you into, and I know I could wait for the position to open up...it's just my impatience gets the better of me more often than not :)

I am strongly interested in both MP and heli pilot, more so heli pilot though. I have no idea how difficult it is to reclass, though... From what I've heard it's not too difficult, but I really don't know about that one :headscratch:

Were you in?
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Re: 12B
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2013, 02:03:42 PM »
Quote from: RedBull1 on May 16, 2013, 01:46:00 PM
thanks a lot for the tips Von :salute

Mom and Dad were both in the army, dad for 22 years. I know most of the ins and outs of what the recruiters try to talk you into, and I know I could wait for the position to open up...it's just my impatience gets the better of me more often than not :)

I am strongly interested in both MP and heli pilot, more so heli pilot though. I have no idea how difficult it is to reclass, though... From what I've heard it's not too difficult, but I really don't know about that one :headscratch:

Were you in?


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Re: 12B
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2013, 02:11:54 PM »
I *knew* from the subject line we were talking MOS.  Congrats and good luck!
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Offline RedBull1

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Re: 12B
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2013, 05:29:18 PM »
Quote from: VonMessa on May 16, 2013, 02:03:42 PM

Hooah!

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Thanks for your service brother :cheers: :salute
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Offline TOMCAT21

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Re: 12B
« Reply #11 on: May 16, 2013, 06:10:18 PM »
 :salute congrats....best of luck...
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Offline Selino631

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Re: 12B
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2013, 08:48:52 PM »
congratulations, and good luck.


Also Redbull. VonMessa is right. Its a huge pain right now to re-class. so don't count on it. If you want to go WOFT. Do whatever it takes to get it. You'll be much happier if you did that instead of enlisting THEN trying to go to WOFT.
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Offline RedBull1

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Re: 12B
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2013, 10:22:13 PM »
Quote from: Selino631 on May 16, 2013, 08:48:52 PM
congratulations, and good luck.


Also Redbull. VonMessa is right. Its a huge pain right now to re-class. so don't count on it. If you want to go WOFT. Do whatever it takes to get it. You'll be much happier if you did that instead of enlisting THEN trying to go to WOFT.
Cool, thanks man :rock
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Offline EskimoJoe

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Re: 12B
« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2013, 12:42:05 AM »
Thanks everyone, and especially thanks to those that served or are serving.

I'm in the delayed entry program, so I get to work out and study for 9 months as I finish up high-school.

Surviving until my ship-date is the hard part. I think once I make it to basic, the easy part begins for me.
(Not that Basic/AIT will be easy, but I enjoy challenge and learning.)

Quote from: Maverick on May 16, 2013, 11:16:00 AM
Congrats. Any idea where basic will be yet?

No, not yet. I know my MOS training will be at Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri, as I'm told all 12B's are made there.
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