Prior Service

[aromi8483]

I am prior service Navy 97-02 HM 8404,8483,8446. I am currently in the AirForce reserves IRR until June of this year. I am 36 yr's old. I am interested in going back into the Navy active duty. Does anyone know what my options are at this time. I would like to do 15 more years and retire at 52. I really enjoed the Navy and had to get out at the time for family reasons.
Thanks !!

[Battleshort]

Call a recruiter.

[aromi8483]

I spoke to one briefly and he never returned my call ?

[aromi8483]

I am not please with the recruiters in Indianapolis area. I was thinking of talking to one outside of my area.

[YomanDenver]

I am not please with the recruiters in Indianapolis area. I was thinking of talking to one outside of my area.

1-866-U-ASK-NPC

[EWCRUIT]

Just coming off a recruiting tour I can tell you that recruiters are not too thrilled with NAVETS/OSVETS. It's not that recruiters are lazy when it comes to paperwork but its very time consuming and requires several trips to MEPS and getting interviews done with the NRD Commanding Officer while still trying to make their monthly goal for the station. You see, when a NAVET/OSVET walks through the door and want to get back in the Navy, that is all good and the recruiters would love to help you out but you getting back in does not count toward their assigned monthly goal until you go back to Great Lakes for your refresher training. Make sense? Here's a personal story that happened to me when I was recruiting. This guy walked in and was a Marine who got out with a RE-1 discharge. He was good to go. This guy needed his last 3 evaluations, DD-214, all of his qualifications, police records and Basic Eligibility Enlistment Requirements (BEER docs) as well. It took this guy about two weeks to collect them and come back to the station. We went to MEPS, two hour drive one way, so he could retake the ASVAB and then go through medical. After that we went back home. 3 weeks later he was allowed to go to the district and interview with the skipper. After that, we headed back home and his package was sent to Millington for a records board which is entirely different from any other board they conduct on a normal daily basis. Then we sit back and wait. The whole process took 2.5 months. That is a ton of work the recruiters devote to putting one person in that doesn't count towards their current monthly goal in which I know their RINC (the boss) is getting impatient with because he's still looking at that magic monthly goal number and it's not getting smaller. If you want to get back in the Navy, by all means, sit down with the local recruiter and have patients. The guy I was talking about never ended up going in because he got ticked off at the system for taking so long, not my fault mind you, and moved to Kansas. So all of that work I did for this guys was wasted time when I could have devoted my attention to people who could join that current month and counted toward that monthly goal. Make sense? You have to have patients and get your records organized that way you show the recruiter that you’re serious and it's less paperwork for him to gather and put your package together. Good luck.

[1navynuke]

Find a reserve prior service recruiter.

[texas_native]

Agree with everything ew said. It is extremely time consuming for the recruiter, and to top it off, most prior service to active duty waivers do not get approved, especially now with the numbers crunch. The recruiter can put in all that time and work, and then the waiver gets shot down most of the time. My advice would be to join the reserves, and try to work your way to active duty from there. You can be in the reserves within a week most of the time.