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I apologize in advance for the long and loaded question.
I’m stuck in a pretty unique circumstance here. I’m enlisted and have just over 1.5 years left. But before I was in and still am in business with my father. He took over my grandfathers construction company and now I’m an owner with him. (I’m obviously
Not working with him or taking a paycheck at the moment)
Being in the army has always been a goal of mine so after close to a decade of working I figured I’m running out of time and I didn’t want to regret not being a soldier. So I enlisted fully intending to come back to work after my contract (as I am part owner at this point.)
Lately my grandpas health has declined to where he isn’t hardly working. And my dad can only work in the office due to some neck surgeries and with COVID our business is struggle hard. So I was just interested in knowing if there is anyway possible to transfer to reserves or the guard early so I can go back home to help our business. I don’t want to leave the service as it’s always been my dream but I also don’t wanna watch as our families business degrades and we potentially go under and have to fire our employees, due to my absence.
I had an nco I’m close to being up hardship discharge but it sounded like that is mostly for care of a sick or dying family member? And I don’t know that I necessarily want to try and leave service before my time is up as I did sign a contract and I don’t think it would sit right with me trying to get out of that responsibility early.
Any advice is useful, I’m just in a stressed out place right now and I’m interest in help in any form.
I’m stuck in a pretty unique circumstance here. I’m enlisted and have just over 1.5 years left. But before I was in and still am in business with my father. He took over my grandfathers construction company and now I’m an owner with him. (I’m obviously
Not working with him or taking a paycheck at the moment)
Being in the army has always been a goal of mine so after close to a decade of working I figured I’m running out of time and I didn’t want to regret not being a soldier. So I enlisted fully intending to come back to work after my contract (as I am part owner at this point.)
Lately my grandpas health has declined to where he isn’t hardly working. And my dad can only work in the office due to some neck surgeries and with COVID our business is struggle hard. So I was just interested in knowing if there is anyway possible to transfer to reserves or the guard early so I can go back home to help our business. I don’t want to leave the service as it’s always been my dream but I also don’t wanna watch as our families business degrades and we potentially go under and have to fire our employees, due to my absence.
I had an nco I’m close to being up hardship discharge but it sounded like that is mostly for care of a sick or dying family member? And I don’t know that I necessarily want to try and leave service before my time is up as I did sign a contract and I don’t think it would sit right with me trying to get out of that responsibility early.
Any advice is useful, I’m just in a stressed out place right now and I’m interest in help in any form.
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You cannot ETS early, without some sort of hardship. If you get out on hardship you will face challenges with the Reserves and Guard, as you are required to make drills and expected to deploy when called upon. You need to speak to your Family, discuss with in Service Recruiters as well as that of the Guard and Reserve to determine your best strategy.
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Quite frankly, what you are going to find out is nobody gives a hoot about your family business. You signed the dotted line incurring a service obligation. Im sorry about what you may have going on in your personal life, but where you stand now, you just gotta hope and pray that the business survives.
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No, the only time you transfer to the reserves is when you get out of the Active Duty Army. You can join the Reserves or NG when it is your time to transition.
Your hardship discharge can be for whatever is causing hardship. It’s approved by your brigade commander, so you’d have to show your BDE CDR how this is causing hardship and how the only way to fix this is by you being home. I would caution you to make sure you complete at least three years of active duty prior to your separation date. If you do less it will affect your future GI Bill entitlement amount.
Your hardship discharge can be for whatever is causing hardship. It’s approved by your brigade commander, so you’d have to show your BDE CDR how this is causing hardship and how the only way to fix this is by you being home. I would caution you to make sure you complete at least three years of active duty prior to your separation date. If you do less it will affect your future GI Bill entitlement amount.
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