Is it in accordance with TRADOC Regulation 350-6 that 35Ms, post-completion of MOS training, are still considered IET status while at DLI?

I’m a 35M. And I don’t need a language. I am MOSQ, I’m still considered iet simply because I haven’t gone to a unit yet. Even though people that I’ve gone to basic and ait with at the same time are no longer iet because they are guard or reserve and went home for a week or two. So now I can no longer associate with them even tho I’m on their same level.

PFC James Downey - sounds like it has not changed for 30 years...exact same standards as when I went through that program in 1988. Welcome to the Army - when you get to your first FORSCOM Unit, you will no longer be an IET Soldier.

Oh...and if you go to Airborne School on your way to Fort Bragg....you are still an IET soldier...I sucked that one up too.

Anyone who enlisted as a 35M before the language became an MOS requirement is grandfathered in, and technically won't need it to be in compliance for their career. You're probably seeing some of the guys who made the smart call and volunteered for DLI so they would have more career opportunities.

By the book, as new as you are, you aren't a 35M yet, and a lot of the old hands are going to look at you funny when you get to your first duty station look like you pin 4 out the gate. Its OK, there will still be booze and poor decisions to make after you get your 2/2.

Respectfully, I've been unable to find anything in regulation that defines an IET soldier as anything other than a soldier yet to attain MOS qualification. Even 350-6 states "Individuals are considered IET status until they graduate and are awarded a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)." If there's something I'm missing somewhere that states otherwise though, I'd definitely want to know.

PFC (Join to see) - I've seen this work in reverse. A soldier graduates and reports to her first duty assignment. She goes back to see people in another cycle graduate. Conducts a movement to contact with one, UCMJ for fraternizing, i.e. A relationship between IET and permanent party, which is verboten.

If you are at DLI, are you still in Tradoc? without out going to another MACOM (like a Forscom unit) in between?

Just suck it up if your not in B Company, unless they have drastically changed IET status at DLI is a joke due to the nature of the installation and its location. You do PT on the Along the beach, off post is fun and easily accessible, they have minimal supervision and rules it's nothing like Huachuca. Just learn your language and don't get dropped, because if your MOS is made language dependent and you wash out your no longer qualified. You become nerds of the army.

What confuses me is that the Appendix covering DLI specifically seems to be at odds with Section 1-4, at the top of page 11 where it states "(b) Specific for enlisted Soldiers, IMT ends when the aspiring Army professional graduates from AIT or OSUT and is determined to be qualified by the branch or functional proponent to perform his/her MOS skills.".

PFC (Join to see) - You failed to read and understand the information in Appendix D on page 114, specifically:
d. Phase V+ begins at the completion of Phase V for 35P Soldiers and upon arrival at DLIFLC for MOS 35M Soldiers who have not been to their first duty station. This phase focuses on language education and Army resilience tasks in preparation for transitioning Soldiers to the operational force. Phase V+ Soldiers are afforded most of the privileges and restrictions as permanent party Soldiers.
Then you need to go back to page 60 and review Table 4-1. IAW Table 4-1, you as a 35M without having been to an initial unit of assignment are still considered a Trainee in IET, though you have met the IMT requirements.

To put it simply - Yes, you are still in IET status until you complete the DLI course that you are there to attend. And no, you may not necessarily have the same rights and privileges as some of your classmates, because you are actually in a different status. I am sure that is not what you wanted to hear but it is correct. And do not push the issue, doing that could cause some of the future rights and privileges to be delayed or not given at all. If you do decide to push the issue, one - make sure that you are in the right and correct, two - realize that your instructors and other cadre may be in a future unit with you and may be your supervisor/leader.