After MEPS, do you go straight to basic training or come home?

Ryan Welch — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:41:46 -0500

Response by TSgt Joe C. made Jan 19 at 2018 8:43 PM

TSgt Joe C. — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:43:31 -0500

If it's to pre qual into the service, you go home afterwards. Your last stop prior to going to basic training will be at MEPS.

Response by SSgt Dan Montague made Jan 19 at 2018 10:03 PM

SSgt Dan Montague — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 22:03:25 -0500

If you are just joining the DEP, you will go home. If you are on your way to basic, then you will go to MEPS again and leave from there to basic.

Response by MAJ Albert McCaig made Jan 19 at 2018 10:18 PM

MAJ Albert McCaig — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 22:18:23 -0500

Absolutely do not remove them. You earned it. I don’t have one but I like to see the right shoulder of those who do.

Response by SGT Eric Davis made Jan 21 at 2018 11:10 PM

SGT Eric Davis — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:10:20 -0500

It depends on why you going to MEPS; are you going to just test, physical or enlist? Then you go home but if you are going to basic then you wait to get shipped off!