Hi, my husband has been in the national guard 3 years, and recently got back from an 18 month deployment to Afghanistan. While he was over there, we talked about the possibility of him going active duty army. He talked to several people over there who encouraged him to do it, and said now was the time to "get what you want" from the army. We decided to think about it, and recently we contacted a couple of recruiters to find out our options. My husband is a 91W, and they basically told us we couldn't renegotiate his contract whatsoever if he wanted to go active duty, he couldn't recieve any kind of extra training or sign on bonus, and there was only a small possibility he might get a say in where he was sent. Now the people that my husband talked to while he was in Afghanistan say the only way he would have been able to negotiate his contract and maybe change a few things if he went active duty was if he had signed up over there while he was deployed. We didn't really care much about bonuses or anything like that, but basically what my husband wanted was some more training, so he could possibly be an LPN or go into the PA program. What the army offered us was I think even worse than what he gets in the guard right now, they told him he'd have to go in as a 91W, he wouldn't get any extra training, and he wouldn't really get a say in where he was going. It all sounds pretty crappy to me, for someone who has been a hard working soldier and has combat experience I can't believe there's nothing out there for him. Is all of this stuff we've been hearing really true? Is there anything else we should be looking into?

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My recruiter said i can go army national guard, go through BCT then AIT and then go active duty. He said when i was done with my training and come back to post and requested active duty and go through some back doors to go active duty. I would talk to the recruiter that enlisted him.

i to would like to go active duty after atleast 3 years of being in the army national guard i am already a private first class and i am planning on working hard and gainin rank but i am not in a hurry......is waitin 3 years the right thing to do?

My husband is currently in Iraq and Natinal Guard. He wants to go active duty and we've decided that it's all good. Although everyone keeps saying he can't go active duty until a while after he comes home. I'm not sure if this is true or not. I would really appreciate if someone could also get me some information on this. I'm not sure what to believe and what not to believe. I would appreciate any bit of information.