How can someone reclassify while still in AIT?

They cannot. Tell your friend it’s a job and it puts food on the table, pays the medical, and offers a pension after 20 years, at a time when other people can’t guarantee when their next meal is. Picking a career path is not like walking into Baskin Robbins and trying all 42 flavors of ice cream while someone pays their full pay and wages to train them. It will help him buy time till he figures out what he wants to be when he grows up.

They only way he can reclass to a different MOS while still in AIT is to fail his current AIT. If he does that, he will not get a choice in the new MOS. It will Needs of the Army and what he quals for. So, your brother is going to have to suck it up until it's time to either ETS or reenlist and try for a new MOS.

Unless he fails the AIT, he can’t reclass in AIT

He has 0 choices. The service can reclass you if the MOS is eliminated, or you fail AIT, in which class its for whatever the service needs. Or if you are normally within your last 12 months of service- you can request an MOS school. He is stuck for at least 3 yrs.

SFC James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" This is a duplicate post. Can this be merged or deleted from the same question he posted.

There is nothing he can do. He needs to wait to see how the MOS is in the Army. He signed his contract and swore in twice, he needs to suck it up.

It's been said a dozen times. Only if he fails. When I was in Intel School folks who funked out of EOD were sent our way because the Army didn't want to waste the TS clearance.

If a young soldier doesn't like the Army I can think of a zillion worse MOS's than to be a Chaplain Assistant. I know nothing of the job, but I doubt they are stuck burning classified documents in a burn pile out back on deployment, or cleaning the gross cooking surfaces in the DFAC.

Where ever he goes it's going to be worse than where he is.

As mentioned, it's a job. Folks get stuck flipping burgers or breaking their back digging ditches. A clerical position is going to allow him the ability to learn things on the side during dead time behind the desk. 3 years is not a long time. I know it's relative because he's probably young, but it will be gone in an instant and remember part of the 3 years is spent in TRADOC. So really it's only like 2.5 years.

If he got any sort of bonus or incentive to sign the contract for his MOS chances are he'll lose those as well.

What to the Drill SGT's say????? The fastest way out is through....................

You cannot reclass while in AIT unless he fails some critical element of his MOS training that he cannot be recycled for. There is no letter he can write, no form he can fill out.

Of course once he fails his AIT he then gets new orders cut for an AIT that is at the needs of the Army and not what he wants. Best thing to do is suck it up, complete the AIT for the MOS he chose and then later, request to reclassify.

The only way he could reclass is when it is time to reenlist or fails ait.

I would suggest that he just sticks it out. If he's re-classed due to him failing a section or something he'll be re-classed to an MOS that meets the needs of the Army. 15 months before his contract ends he can talk to his retention NCO about reclassing to an open MOS of his choice.