The next question you should ask should be the degree of commitment you are willing to make. After enlisting in the service, members are sent to basic training. After graduation, they are sent to specialty job training schools. Upon completion, they are assigned to a station or unit for duty. After 20 years of regular service, members qualify for a military retirement.
Personnel serve an initial period on active duty after attending basic training and job training.
After the training period, which usually lasts several months, reservists are free to return to civilian life, but for the remainder of the service obligation they attend training sessions and perform work in the job specialty one or two days a month with their local unit. When reservists have completed 20 years of service and have reached age 60, they are entitled to retirement, based on reserve pay. Back Copyright NDMS 1999. All rights Reserved. Site Design and Maintenance by Visionweb Studios .