74D needs Help with re-up and re-enlistment

If it's your first reup you should still have all 4 reenlistment options available. One of them is "Choice of duty station. Hold out until your window is almost closed if you have to. Other than that I'd be checking out what the BEAR program has to offer.

My advice to you is don't let a lack of options be the reason you don't reup. First having been stationed in Korea twice I think it was excellent duty, but I did 10 years because I loved to travel. I have also heard great things about Alaska.

After my first four years, I really learned how to control my duty assignments. I can tell you though that even when you are able to take control, a lot of times the roll of the dice is a better outcome than what you had been wishing for.

As someone else said, be flexible. Make the best out of any assignment and take what you learned from your last duty to your next.

Good luck to you.

SPC Nicholas Jones, Yes, most of us have faced the same situation after our initial tour. My choices were Korea or Germany at the end of my first enlistment. Even today as a Master Sergeant, I have limitations on where I can go. My last PCS I was offered Arizona or Fort Gordon ( Fort Gordon only after I asked if there was anything available on the east coast). I'd recommend Korea, you get to take your wife, if you have one, now. Is it Camp Casey? I enjoyed Camp Casey. Although I hear Alaskas great if you like the snow.

Reclass to an MOS that you don't need to have 798 pp , like medic haha

Like many other people have stated, look at the options presented to you and see which is best for you. I advise you to make a choice quickly before the Army makes it for you. Granted your contract may be up shortly so the Army might not be likely to reassign you forceably, but anything can happen

Avoid alaska like the plague.

Out of those options, Alaska sounds like the better deal. However, if those are the only assignments available and you don't care which you go to, you can always see about doing a reenlistment for school option. Then you at least have the opportunity to get something you want.

Right now as a 74D even at the 20 and 30 levels, assignments are limited. You may want to take a look at both places you are being offered and see which one will possibly put you in a position to advance your career better. Are you promotable yet? Sometimes having that promotable status opens up avenues that werent available to you before. When push comes to shove you have to consider two things, the advancement of your career and your family. These two things won't always coincide with eachother, but both are important if you want to stay in the army and be successful.

Keep hitting up branch daily/weekly for options, talk to your retention NCO see if they can do anything for you. Lastly if you have any contacts at either of those duty stations. Utilize them. Contact a unit there and talk with their 1stSgt, have your ERB good and squared away and could possibly 4187 over or back door in.

You have two of the worst potential duty stations in the Army. If your choice is Alaska for Fort Richardson, that's a great post and a great area. The only other base is in Fairbanks Alaska and I'll just say you do not want that, I promise you.