There are a lot of different advantages to joining the military, but if you have served in the military before, you can enjoy some advantages to your prior service enlistment. With a prior service enlistment that you have completed successfully you have some options and advantages that people that have not served in the military before do not have. The United States Military is currently very open to men and women who have prior service, they respect the training and experience that personnel who have served previously have to offer. With experience and prior service it is sometimes possible to enlist and keep your prior rank.
There are some basic rules for prior enlistment, some of them can be waived at times, some of them cannot. For a general rule, if you have served in the military before, and successfully completed your first enlistment, and been granted a honorable discharge, it is normally possible to re enlist, providing you fall into some general categories. There are specific rules and regulations, some of them include:
-Enlisting with prior service with rank beneath E-3 has to be given approval from the command-recruiting center.
-Re enlistment of prior service of personnel E-4 and above must have 14 years or less of experience.
-Prior service re enlisting with 24 hours of previous discharge normally are exempt from any of these regulations and can normally keep their service continuous within reason.
-Prior service re enlistment of E-3 or below must have six years or less experience.
-Re enlistment will not normally allow a higher rank than held at previous discharge.
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Active Duty- If a active duty person undergoes discharge, and then wants later to re enlist, they can often be accommodated if their rating (if in the Navy or Coast Guard) is in the open rate list. For the seagoing services, if the re enlistment is not on the open rate list, then normally they have to re enlist at E-1. There are exceptions but these are on a case-by-case basis.
Open Rate List- In the Navy and Coast Guard, this is a list that is constantly in demand, and that are actively looking for candidates. If the person wishing to reenlist has a rating the same or similar enough to the open rate list at the time, they can at times be allowed to reenlist at their previous rate and rank. This is dependent on the open rate list at the time they re enlist.
