Everyone who enters the military has to take the Oath of Enlistment or Oath of Office. Do you feel there is an expiration date to that oath?

Hi, SPC Bucaro.
I've been out since 2002. I was never relieved of my oath.

Personally, for me there is no expiration date.

NEGATIVE. I may have been released from active duty but nowhere on my DD214 does it say I am relieved of my oath.

I never rescinded my oath and I view it as everlasting.

I would say that it ends. There are times where we move on to other things. We leave the military and we can no longer fight our nations enemies as we did while we served. I have took both oaths. I know what they meant. But when you leave the service you are completed your oath. You oath is a legal document that has a completion date on it.

Now if you want to continue to serve you can but you can't soldier for you country when you are no longer in the Army. There are other ways you can serve as a veteran that are just as honorable.

Sure don't remember any phrase that limited it.

Well, when you re-enlist you have to raise hand and swear again, so the government must think the original oath expires.

*Insert self aggrandizing patriotic slogan here*

It's the oath of enlistment. It applies while enlisted.
The clue is in the name.

When you receive you Honorable DD214 saying that you will defend the US on your own time if you want to. Thats the expiration date