Does anyone know anything about prior service soldiers going Navy?

Thanks!

Thanks SSG!

In 1982, I had been in the Army Reserves for about 3 years already. The thing I learned is that when you're trying to go active duty, the Service you are in (Army in my case) has a twofold problem -- they've got to get you into a billet in the active component, and they have to get your replacement for the reserve component, since they're responsible for filling those billets too. That means it can take a lot longer since they're typically not going to release you to active duty until they have your replacement already arranged.

The other thing I learned is that the Navy doesn't give a crap about the Army's reserve billet problem. So when I walked into the Navy Recruiter's office, it was only a question of what jobs I qualified for, what job I wanted, and when the next training billet was open for that job.

I took the ASVAB in high school and did very well on it (97th percentile, IIRC). The recruiter wanted me to take the ASVAB again, and I asked if he couldn't just use the results from my previous test. He was skeptical about my claim to have scored as well as I did, but since I went to high school in that area, he was able to look up my results in a filing cabinet in the back of his office. I knew he found them when I heard his voice incredulously asking me, "Do you want to be a brain surgeon?" It opened up literally every job the Navy had to offer me.