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Quoted: There is a way out... an Entry Level Seperation.
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sound lkie that is what this guy should have done.....
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ELS is not the soldier's option, it's the company commander's... Soldiers can request it, but the CO decides weather or not to proceed.
Army calls it 'Chaper 11 - Failure to Adapt', and it results in an uncharacterized discharge (which means there's no Hornorable, General, or other classification, he's just out.)
Said discharge is available in the first 180 days of enlistment.
Now that he's gone AWOL, he may well get one if they don't want to do the board for Serious Misconduct/ OTH,,, That first time might have been PCS leave after whatever the USMC calls AIT, but #2 is not so explainable...
I have seen all kinds of folks go AWOL while I was in AIT - most of them were idiots who were too goddamn immature to be in the service - most of them came back after they realized what they had done... Some were kicked out under various chapters & discharges, some came back realizing they wanted to stay in & got Article 15s...
One went to jail - he had gone AWOL about 4 separate times, was awaiting separation from the Army, and went AWOL again... They didn't toss him in the brig (Ft Eustis sends their fuckups to the Navy brig at Norfolk) for AWOL though - the dumbfuck got BUSTED FOR POT while AWOL (UCMJ still applies while AWOL - so the Army could get him for posession) and PISSED HOT when the cops brought him back... Our BC, like most army brass, had no tolerance for potheads & off to jail AWOL-boy went....