My ship date has been brought up 8 days without them telling me. Does anyone have an explanation?

SR Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 02:55:55 -0400

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 27 at 2017 8:11 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:11:45 -0400

Welcome to the military my friend.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 27 at 2017 8:49 AM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:49:04 -0400

Could be a number of reasons. Time, budget, availability......who knows.

Response by SGM Erik Marquez made Sep 27 at 2017 9:13 AM

SGM Erik Marquez — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:13:03 -0400

Your not going to like the answer, but if you cant deal with it, Military life is not for you.
The answer, Your ship date changed.

Planned things are going to change constantly in your upcoming military life...Accept it or your set for failure.. you will be another unhappy one term service member that gets out with a bad attitude blaming all but the one actually at issue..the one in the mirror... the one that had unrealistic expectations and when those were not met, it MUST be the services fault...can't be me....

The 1st step is to accept plans are just that plans.....You will need to focus on what you are told NOW, not what was planned yesterday, or even a hour ago. Things change beyond your control, or control of the folks telling you things changed.... and there is NOTHING you can do about it, so get mad if you want but there is no gain in that..
If the plan was turn left at the end of the walk way but the NCO at the end is telling you to turn right..turn right and keep moving forward.

Moving your ship date earlier may cause you issues with your planning.... be it clearing out of your leased apartment, doctors appointment, getting married (I hope not) ect..if it is something you feel you just can not budge on.. go see your recruiter and work something out.

Response by SGM Bill Frazer made Sep 27 at 2017 9:14 AM

SGM Bill Frazer — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:14:48 -0400

You signed on the dotted line, the minute you did that you belong to the military. They will send you when, where and how to get the best results THEY need to accomplish. Might have had some failures for a certain class and grabbed you as a filler. Who knows, get use to it!

Response by PVT Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 27 at 2017 9:26 AM

PVT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:26:31 -0400

Are you talking about on the future soldier website? My has subtracted a day every day since the day I signed my contract. My recruiter said not to worry. But if I were you I'd contact your recruiter asap.

Response by TSgt Thomas Monaghan made Sep 27 at 2017 10:22 AM

TSgt Thomas Monaghan — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:22:20 -0400

Wait until you are with your unit it always seems all the world goes to s**t during the holidays.

Response by SP5 Peter Keane made Sep 27 at 2017 11:35 AM

SP5 Peter Keane — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:35:21 -0400

Are you Army or Navy ? SR, but posted to PVT.

Response by PVT Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 10 at 2017 12:13 PM

PVT Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:13:29 -0500

Good luck hope you enjoy it it really is fun once you get passed basic I'll pray for you

Response by PVT Joseph Campbell made Jan 7 at 2018 4:00 PM

PVT Joseph Campbell — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:00:06 -0500

There is none. You do what they need without question. Good luck

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 22 at 2019 11:10 AM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 11:10:13 -0500

The government sends you to training when they send you that’s why you always need to be prepared and don’t take much to BCT because they give you everything and I mean everything there for training