Posted on Jan 21, 2019
If you did a 6-year contract, do you have to spend the whole 6 years at your 1st duty station?
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Or is there a chance that you can come up on orders after a certain amount of time? It would really suck lol and would’ve been good to know when enlisting that you’ll be stuck somewhere for that long.
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No, you only have to do 3 years at a duty station. As you get closer to that mark, you can call your branch manager and ask to move. If you're willing to go airborne, it's even sooner.
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It also depends on the type of unit you’re assigned too. Depending upon if the unit is a rotational unit, you can be “fenced in”, meaning you would have to get approval from the Brigade CSM and/or the BN CDR. I personally know a quite a bit of SM who have been at the duty assignment 5yrs plus due to being fenced in.
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SGT (Join to see) No. I re-enlisted for Ft Devens (4 year contract). I arrived at Ft Devens from Ft Lewis September 1990 and came down on orders in June of 1991 and departed Ft Devens September 1991, 1 year and 1 week after arriving.
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