Going back Active

[dazedcunf]

Only way I can do it is go Army reserve first. Reserve recruiter wants me to go DI. I get E-6 after 6 months. I'm ex Navy E-4. He says I can go active in a year, but hedges the subject about getting back to Specwar. Can I go active, and get Ranger school, or at the least Airborne? I was a NSW communicator for 4 years. I qualified on the MP-5, 60, m whatever grenade launcher, M4 (we called em CAR's), and went out in the field on FID ops regularly. (Usually cause they needed all eyes on the host nation idiots) I've been to SERE school. My only other option is to go rigger, which means jump school, at Benning, and getting E5 for it, then go active. Any suggestions?

[Mac679]

odd question: what MOS are you looking at?

[dazedcunf]

Not an odd ? MAC. I've had the same. I assume the MOS would be my primary NEC while in the Navy. I was an ET, (Extra Testicle/Electronics Technician) with a specialization in communications(2 NEC for comm systems, one for micro miniature soldering repair of multi layer circuit boards,and two for radar systems (IFF, and ground control radar). ET school was 49 weeks (Longer than the Army equivalent) I've been through the NSW comm course taught by a GMGC SEAL. While with CNSWG-1 MCT I functioned as an ET/RM. (Radioman) I regularly went out in the field during FID (Foreign Internal Defense) training ops overseas. (Just so they could have one more eye on the generally incompetent foriegn nation's so called specwar units) I've qualified on the M-16(M-4 version is the closest I can come up with for civilian use, it was a CAR something in the Navy), M-203 grenade launcher, M-60, SIG 22? piece of **** gun, MP-5, and the HK MK23.

The Drill Instructor thing in the reserves will get me E-6 after 6 months. To keep out of boot camp I have to do a few weekends with an infantry reserve unit and get qualled again on M16, Army hand to hand, ( I did take 2 months of SCARS while TAD to the NSWU-1 in Guam) and use of a bayonett. I've started running again and I'm averaging 11 minute miles on a 3 mile run, and 14 minute miles on a 5 mile run.