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Originally Posted by Seaver
Thank you for your time served Pan, but enlisted and officer contracts are very different.
Under enlisted you re-enlist about every 5 years. If the 5 years ends and you do nothing you are excused from service (extenuating sircumstances non-withstanding aka stop-gap).
Under officer if you do nothing at the end of your first 4 years you are still in. If you DO put in the paperwork to resign you do NOT resign your commission. At anytime until age 60 you can be called back into military service. Unless you are disabled somehow, or already serving in a public office you are liable to be called into active duty. As I said before they do NOT lie about this fact, and drill it into our heads in the Academy, ROTC, and OCS before we get our commission. He knew what could happen now he's suing because it did, so I cant be sympathetic to it.
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That's cool Seaver and thank you for your time in.
No, I was always told that the contracts were pretty much the same,except they would resign their commissions. And another basis for my reasoning was that in 1990 on our ship there were 2 officers that were actually being discharged because they had not moved up in rank in 4 years (1 was a LTJG the other was a LT). Of course in the spring of 1990 they were cutting 70,000 Navy and Marine jobs (under Bush I might add).
However, I do see the point in the military having a longer "inactive reserve" period for the officers because they put far more money into officers trainings.