Joining army reserves at 17?

I don't know why Wine was thumbed down but what he says is accurate. I was a recruiter for three years and for almost two years of my tour Reserves and National Guard troops wanting to switch over to active were given the shaft. It isn't like five or six years ago when active duty was literally begging part time and prior service troops to come active. If your goal is active duty just enlist into active duty during your senior year. You will be in the DEP until you graduate and from there you will ship to basic training.

Join The Army Reserves

17 is not a disadvantage. I was 17 when I went in, active duty. I turned 18 in basic training. As Wine said though if you want to eventually go active duty you'd be crazy to join the Reserves/Guard now. Switching from Reserve/Guard to active duty is NOT as easy as some people would have you believe. Especially these days.

And no, it is not possible to go active duty and complete school..... You have to have your high school diploma in hand, or at an absolute minimum a GED and 15 semester hours of college, before going in. Even if you're 18. Even to do the split option in the Guard you have to still be in school and on track to graduate on time before you can do it.

You can't join the military until you have graduated school. They won't let you go until you have that high school diploma. If you do plan on going active duty eventually, I would wait until you graduate and not bother with the reserves. It's harder to go active once you've been trained in the reserves. It can still be done but you will still have a committment to the reserves first. As far as being young in the reserves, older ranking individuals will take you under their wings and teach you the ropes. It's not hard at all.

It can be actual. You can not enlist prior to your seventeenth birthday and could twenty third can be too late to get you a date to ship to normal for summer vacation. Lots of the slots for the summer time are crammed prior to that. Which you can still enlist but you'll need to wait unless you graduate to move to normal. Should you go reserves you will go to the nearest reserve unit that has open slots to your MOS. I would propose when you consider that both reserves and lively duty. While you see a recruiter ask for extra expertise on the ConAP application. It permits you to get approved with close to any university in the nation after enlistment. As for Airborne, it is dependent upon whether it is to be had or now not. It is in most cases available with 11X, however different jobs may not invariably present it. That you may volunteer for Airborne university anytime for your career if you aren't getting it correct away. I do know one character who went to Airborne institution that had practically thirteen years in at the time.

If you plan on going active duty I would skip the whole Reserve/Guard split option thing.

There is no guarantee than the Reserve will let you go active duty and there is no guarantee that active duty will be taking Reservist when you want to switch.

hey guy, you can join the army until you are mature enough because you should learn something basically in the school

Yes it is common, but you will need parental consent.

Do it, the sooner you start your clock the better.