Army Basic Training??

Question

I was wondering if you have to joing the reserves or the army after you have completed basic training, or can you just keep on living your life like a normal civilian (excpet with all the acquired knowledge you got at BT)

Answer 1

The only way you will go to be Basic training is if you are a member of the reserves, National Guard or active duty army. You do not go THEN join.

Doesn't matter if you are Reserve, NG or Active Duty, your life is going to change. There is the possibility of deployments, ongoing training and standards that must be met.

Answer 2

Yes you enlist for 8 years, as soon as you take care of that at a place called MEPS, you then go to basic training and then on to AIT. After that you serve however long you signed up for in either the active duty side, the reserves, or the National Guard. When you are done with that you are thrown in to what is known as the IRR, that is where you get to go on with your life as a civilian, with no formations, no PT, etc, unless you get called back. For example suppose you sign up to do 4 years as a 19D, you decide not to reenlist, you have 4 more years in the IRR. After the total of 8 years is up your done.

Answer 3

You have to be in the reserves or active duty to go to basic training. It isn't a stand alone program.  

Answer 4

Yes you have to Serve. Before you even leave for BT you sign a Contract for Service and Swear in to an Oath of Enlistment in either the Reserves, Guard, Or Active Army.

Answer 5

Since they PAY YOU while you’re undergoing basic training as you are employed by the army and basic training is part of the training towards doing actual work for the army, I would say no.

I’m pretty sure there are boot camps where you get almost the same training and civilians can do. But you’ll no doubtfully have to pay for that.

Plus, if the army let just anyone do basic training without aspiration of being a soldier, all our army secrets would get out=(