https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/considering-going-guard-to-active-army-if-i-go-ocs-is-there-a-minimum-enlistment-time-in-order-to-go-ocs-or-can-i-enlist-just-three-years <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:15:53 -0500 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/considering-going-guard-to-active-army-if-i-go-ocs-is-there-a-minimum-enlistment-time-in-order-to-go-ocs-or-can-i-enlist-just-three-years <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div> SFC(P) Private RallyPoint Member Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:15:53 -0500 2016-02-23T18:15:53-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/considering-going-guard-to-active-army-if-i-go-ocs-is-there-a-minimum-enlistment-time-in-order-to-go-ocs-or-can-i-enlist-just-three-years?n=1325782&urlhash=1325782 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="178002" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/178002-91c-utilities-equipment-repairer-1058th-transpo-164th-transpo">SFC(P) Private RallyPoint Member</a> tough question, I would ask your unit CAREER COUNSLOR, they should be able to square you away. SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:18:50 -0500 2016-02-23T18:18:50-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/considering-going-guard-to-active-army-if-i-go-ocs-is-there-a-minimum-enlistment-time-in-order-to-go-ocs-or-can-i-enlist-just-three-years?n=1325789&urlhash=1325789 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You can go straight into OCS, but some recruiting Battalions hold interviews or contests to see who will get the slots. You have already been to basic, so it might be a faster process for you once you do all of the paperwork. CPT Private RallyPoint Member Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:20:07 -0500 2016-02-23T18:20:07-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/considering-going-guard-to-active-army-if-i-go-ocs-is-there-a-minimum-enlistment-time-in-order-to-go-ocs-or-can-i-enlist-just-three-years?n=1325803&urlhash=1325803 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Do you have your Bachelors degree yet? MAJ Private RallyPoint Member Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:23:10 -0500 2016-02-23T18:23:10-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/considering-going-guard-to-active-army-if-i-go-ocs-is-there-a-minimum-enlistment-time-in-order-to-go-ocs-or-can-i-enlist-just-three-years?n=1326530&urlhash=1326530 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Another route would be to go through your State OCS to get your commission and then go Federal Service. Officers don't enlist but we do incur a minimum initial service time of 6 years with 2 additional years on IRR if we don't resign our commission. If we don't resign our commission and get out or retire, we are placed on IRR status until age 60-62 and can be called back to service. LTC Private RallyPoint Member Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:33:06 -0500 2016-02-23T22:33:06-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/considering-going-guard-to-active-army-if-i-go-ocs-is-there-a-minimum-enlistment-time-in-order-to-go-ocs-or-can-i-enlist-just-three-years?n=1327584&urlhash=1327584 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would suggest that you get a conditional release from the guard(however I know few that did it quickly) go to federal ocs. If you want to be active do not go into your states ocs program. You will never get out of the guard after that. CPT Private RallyPoint Member Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:35:41 -0500 2016-02-24T10:35:41-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/considering-going-guard-to-active-army-if-i-go-ocs-is-there-a-minimum-enlistment-time-in-order-to-go-ocs-or-can-i-enlist-just-three-years?n=1327744&urlhash=1327744 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>3 year minimum commitment. CPT(P) Private RallyPoint Member Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:28:05 -0500 2016-02-24T11:28:05-05:00 2016-02-23T18:15:53-05:00