Posted: 11/12/2010 6:36:06 PM EDT
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I'm looking to see if anybody here has experience with the USMC split option.
I know I've read about this here before but couldn't turn anything up in a search. Doing a Google search I turned up a few pages but most of it was people bickering about whether it was real or not. Anyhow, what can you all tell me about the Marine Corps split option. I'd like to join but I'm trying to balance everything right now. With school going on, it seems that this would work out great so that I could attend boot in the summer and be home to continue the Fall Semester of school. Anybody have any first hand experience with this? Thanks in advance. |
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reserve enlisted or officer. never heard about it for active duty. call your recruiter. he won't bite you. Thanks for the reply. I was planning Reserve Enlisted 03. Looking more into what people's opinions about the split option itself is. (sucked, loved it, etc.) |
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reserve enlisted or officer. never heard about it for active duty. call your recruiter. he won't bite you. Thanks for the reply. I was planning Reserve Enlisted 03. Looking more into what people's opinions about the split option itself is. (sucked, loved it, etc.) OHHH that's just the 92 day reservist program. You'll go to boot camp...go check in to your unit, and they will send you to SOI/MCT after you've enrolled for college for the following year. generally you'll go to the follow on school the following summer. I was an 03 in the reserves. |
| Dont do it dude. Most people will tell you that SOI and MCT are much more demanding than bootcamp. SOI kicked my ass and I was in the shape of my life. After my active duty time I joined a reserve unit and met a lot of guys doing the split program. a year of college after bootcamp had those guys hurting at SOI. I thinky oure better off taking a semester off and doing them back to back. just get it over with. |
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I was USMC active and Army Guard reserve. Saw many a split option kid not make it thru AIT. Take them all at once. You will bump AD people out of school slots to get thru in under 180 days. Some voodoo happens when a Reservist goes past 180 days.
My experience with a split option is not USMC but I still recommend going straight thru. |
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Last I heard, USMC didn't do split option, only the Army. I'd like to find out more if that has changed. ETA: I've heard both good and bad things from those that did split option in the Army. The main "pro" is the confidence and pride that comes with being a Soldier while still in school. The "con" is that you need to keep up on PT and recognize that losing all your privledges in AIT is going to suck. |
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Last I heard, USMC didn't do split option, only the Army. I'd like to find out more if that has changed. It's the 92 day reservist program http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42850 |
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I did it starting in 1999 and was a 1371 Combat Engineer. It was tough but the best option since I wanted to get through school on time. 92 day reservists could skip a week of boot camp (team week) and graduate a week early as long as you were enrolled to begin the semester within a couple weeks of your boot camp graduation date. It gets you out earlier but don't expect to be treated nicely in your new platoon (relatively nicely that is). If your home reserve unit is on the ball, they will help train you before you ever go to your MOS school. You must work hard to get in shape before reporting to the next school. Getting dropped off at Courthouse Bay of Camp Lejuene in the middle of June, to run a boots and utes the next morning was a bitch. The next summer I went to MCT on a different coast then I went to recruit training. There were a lot of nasty games played with the 92 day'ers but hey, at least we made it back to our reserve unit in time for school. Of course, your experience may vary.
So that is a quick break down of the training schedule. Here are some other details to ponder. If your parent unit is activated before you complete MCT/SOI and/or your MOS school, you are not deployable. You will be activated with everyone else but sent to the remaining schools, then you will either rejoin your unit, be dumped into another deploying one, or sent to your parent units drill station to stay on active duty for PWST. You will not go to AT those first few years (assuming you aren't deployed) because your training schools will count for those. If you drop out of college, expect to be accelerated and sent finish the rest of your training. If you get delayed in boot camp due to injury or failure, you will be given the option of staying until you are healed and miss that semester or to drop out and go home. My overall impression was...okay. I was glad I didn't have to miss that first semester of college. We 92 day'ers were hammered at our schools for being different, but so what?. That happens to a lot of other individuals and you move on quickly anyway. One more thing to keep in mind, you are going to be activated and deployed, sooner more likely than later. The Marine Reserves are busy. I would do it the same way if I were to do it today. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Last I heard, USMC didn't do split option, only the Army. I'd like to find out more if that has changed. It's the 92 day reservist program http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42850 OK, thanks. In the Army's version, you go to Basic Training in the summer before your Senior year of High School, serve with a Reserve unit during the year, then go to AIT when you graduate. |
| I didn't do the 92 day program, but I would recommend not doing it. Going from Boot Camp right to SOI is the way to go. If you have a year to get lazy and get unaccustomed to getting yelled at constantly then it is going to make it that much harder. Seriously, missing one semester isn't going to make one bit of difference in the grand scheme of things. |
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Quoted: I was USMC active and Army Guard reserve. Saw many a split option kid not make it thru AIT. Take them all at once. You will bump AD people out of school slots to get thru in under 180 days. Some voodoo happens when a Reservist goes past 180 days. My experience with a split option is not USMC but I still recommend going straight thru. that - you'll get right into your class spot - no time in forming do them both together - no reason to postpone it. You're getting paid while you're in there so take the summer and a semester (assuming you're doing college also) and just knock it out
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I didn't do the 92 day program, but I would recommend not doing it. Going from Boot Camp right to SOI is the way to go. If you have a year to get lazy and get unaccustomed to getting yelled at constantly then it is going to make it that much harder. Seriously, missing one semester isn't going to make one bit of difference in the grand scheme of things. +1 Do it all at once and get through it, you will be grateful later if you do. |