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It's just the way it is across all branches. Recruiters are enjoying the chance to be selective during this time of recession. People are waiting upwards of nine months to ship for Navy boot camp. @ Additional Details: Well, shipmate, you should have told them that you would not accept that job...

Prior Service are getting two options right now: 11B or nada, so don't count on keeping 92Y.

You need a waiver. You got charged, so it'll pop up even in a simple background check. Come clean with the recruiter unless you want your military career to be very, very brief.

Just tell your recruiter that you have changed your mind and that you will not ship to Great Lakes. While you are under UCMJ, the cost of prosecuting someone in DEP is just too much work when they could just drop you from the DEP rolls. I don't know if you'll be able to bolt straight for ROTC...

Know the basic details about major battles, important figures, and turning points in Army history. You'll be instructed on some of it, but don't go in without being at least somewhat familiar with it.

Bring nothing more than the clothes on your back and your requisite documents (license, SSN card, etc.). Anything more than that will be shipped home. Unusual items will gain the ire of your Drill Instructor.

Just keep running. Getting stronger and building your endurance can NEVER hurt your chances of surviving boot camp. Showing up and being able to only do enough to just get by, though, is a sure way to catch the vigilant eye of your drill instructor.

Nothing more to say but to either get used to it or get gone. He's going to be gone a lot longer than three months at times, and if you're already tearing yourself apart after less than 24 hours away from him, things don't look good for your future during those long deployments.

Yeah, but your only choice is Army enlisted. You've bypassed all the other services' maximum ages for enlisted and you won't get to Army Officer Candidate School before your 40th birthday, which is the maximum for that program.

If you've already been through the "military dating" life and know that you didn't have a good time last time, what makes you think things will be different now? I'm assuming you're only a few years older than you were at the time you dated the Marine if your boyfriend's just now graduating from...

If you've already been through the "military dating" life and know that you didn't have a good time last time, what makes you think things will be different now? I'm assuming you're only a few years older than you were at the time you dated the Marine if your boyfriend's just now graduating from...

Hospitalization for a suicide attempt equals permanent disqualification. No waivers, no exceptions. They won't have to do a background check: they'll take one look at your medical history at MEPS and show you the door.

I think you ought to look into joining the reserves if you want to go to school while you're in.

I think you ought to look into joining the reserves if you want to go to school while you're in.

You can't scrub the latrines in ANY branch of military with a diagnosis of depression that requires treatment. Too great a chance that the stress of military life would cause you to completely meltdown and/or do something to yourself. The medical rules are in place for a reason. The suicide...

Yes, Army BCT is difficult. It gets easier as you go along, but for the first phase of training you can expect that no one is going to be able to do anything right, and you're all going to pay with physical training until you shape up.

What did you go to court for? Yeah, juvenile offenses count. Don't believe any recruiter BS that it's "sealed," or "expunged." No court has the right to tell the FBI/DoD what is "sealed." Assuming your trips to court were for anything other than traffic charges, you can't be military police...

First thing is, you need to lose about 12 pounds, probably closer to 20 to be safe. The maximum allowed weight for someone of your height in the Marine Corps is 238. If you don't have self-discipline, you will either gain it through Boot Camp or you'll wash out. If you slack off, you'll be...