Posted on Aug 5, 2019
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I'm have just barely over a year left in my 6 year contract in the Army. When I got out of high school i wanted to go Marine Reconnaissance, but was talked into going Army by my Dad. Now that I'm able to start planning my future I would like to know if I have a chance of being allowed into either being prior service and an E-5. Thank you.
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SFC Retention Operations Nco
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Why would you want to? Recon Marines leave the Corps all the time to join the Army. We have better training, better missions, and all around better opportunities, funding, and utilization. While I was a Career Counselor in Okinawa, I received phone calls on a weekly basis from Recon Marines asking how to switch over and try out for SFAS or 75th Ranger. You'll find lots of former Marines in both of those organizations.
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SFC thank you, this helps. I've definitely thought about SFAS, but also been told its tough to get into the 75th regiment if you're prior service. Tough but not impossible so I will definitely talk to some recruiters to see what is available for me. Thanks
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SGT (Join to see) it's not at all tough to get in, we had tons of prior service. It's tough to get an option 40 contract, but you don't need that to volunteer
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Have fun being a Private again. I had about 4 prior service army guys at PI and 2 of them went from e5 in the Army to E2 in the corps. But only way to know about being prior service is talking to a marine corps recruiter.
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Sgt George Kinyaevsky
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One of the issues you'll face is the drop in rank. Not only will you have to go through boot camp, the highest you can possibly leave boot camp is an E-3. Then you'll go through SOI and after SOI you'll try for Recon. If you pass, you'll go to further training, if not you'll most likely become an 0311. In order to to go Raider A&S you have to submit a package and do a physical as well as a psych screening, but you already have to hold an MOS and as far as I know it's not a guarantee on a contract like Recon is. Being prior-service won't place any restrictions on recon/MARSOC other than the fact that the Crops might not be accepting prior-service enlistees, or you'll be limited by what MOS you can hold being prior-service.
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Sgt George Kinyaevsky
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Counter question for you: Why Recon/MARSOC and not Ranger/Green Beret?
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I am definitely thinking about it, it's something I need to decide on. Since I wanted to go into the Marines in High school I thought Id ask to get a complete idea. thanks!
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SGT (Join to see) No worries, let me know if you have any more questions, I'll answer what I can.
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