Posted: 5/10/2007 3:17:51 PM EDT
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here's the situation i'm in. i enlisted back in december for the PA Army National Guard. i was scheduled to go to Basic Combat training on March 2nd. from december through my ship date i drilled with a Recruit Sustainment detatchment during my units weekend drills. a week before my ship date the PA Guard sends all new recruits to week long Pre-Initial Entry Training at Fort IndianTown Gap, PA. now here's my problem, on the last day of Pre IET training, during morning PT i really screwed up my knee. i tried to hide it from the drill SGT but it got to the point where i couldn't walk. the next day the other recruits shipped out to Basic. I inturn had a long bus ride home. I found out i will be recieving an Entry Level Separation because i did not list my previous knee injurys on my medical at MEPS. now i have to have surgery to correct the injury to my knee. What i want is to stay in the Guard, get healed up and get back to good psyical shape and ship out to Basic. i don't want to be Discharged and then try to do it all over again down the road. I'm not one to just roll over and say that was the best i could do. my question is; what, if anything, can i do to stay in the Guard and serve out at least the six+2 years i enlisted for. Thanks for your help and i stand behind the Troops 1000% Pfc. Chris Smith |
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Sorry this doesn't really answer your question but my opinion of RSP programs (at least the one I was in) is that they are well intentioned, but do little more than waste time that could be spent with your future unit and teach you things that will be taught differently at basic which only leads to confusion. Good luck with your knee |
| As for the RSP, every NCO thought i was Prior service being 26 years old and knowing just about everything they covered in the class room from the phonetic alphabet to Rank structure, had signals and so on and so forth. i just tell them my gradnfather served 4 years in the navy during WWII and i have always been interested in the military. the RSP has it's good points and bad i do agree. they do try and teach the basics and give the new recruit a head start over everyone else. |