PCS from korea July 6, deploying is really important to me, but so is going home, so much that I do not *REALLY* want to re-up.

If I can get to a deployable unit, and then a brigade that is actually deploying, would they even let me go if I ETS in less than a year??

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Originally posted by 20274112:
PCS from korea July 6, deploying is really important to me, but so is going home, so much that I do not *REALLY* want to re-up.

If I can get to a deployable unit, and then a brigade that is actually deploying, would they even let me go if I ETS in less than a year??

if the date your suppose to leave the army or leave the your unit is within 90 days of your units deployment then you will be under stop lose which means they can keep you for deployment. unless the 90 day thing changed.

You can always "extend" your contract. You pick your amount of months extra you want to serve, usually to complete schools like OCS, deployments, or to reach a certain milestone. Try it out. Just know there's no bonuses.

REALLY?! Ive been asking about that but retention nco says its a negative

The Retention NCo at your gaining unit should make the decision on an extension.

The one you have now has no dog in the fight except to get you to re-enlist. I would be suspect of his answers.

Rules for extending or reenlisting are explained very clearly in AR 601-280 - go over to the Retention Forum and read it.

1. You can not "extend" your contract if you are in your reenlistment window except in very special circumstances. Because you don't want to reenlist is not a special circumstance.

2. Your Career Counselor (they haven't been called Retention NCOs for many, many years now) has to enforce the rules in the Army Regulation AR 601-280. You will receive the exact same answer from the Career Counselor at your new unit as you will from the Career Counselor at your current unit.

3. You are at that time in your career that every soldier faces - do I want to stay in or get out. Think long and hard, weigh your options - do you have a job waiting back home? will you go to college if you get out? Worse thing any soldier can do is seperate without makeing definate plans for the future.

Thinking back to my Korea tour...

As I recall, if you had less than 6 months left on your enlistment at the end of your tour, you finished those months out in Korea. It worked great to get guys to re-up rather than turn a 12 month tour into a 16 month one...