Posted on Mar 18, 2018
Is there a way to still get my reclass and not go to Korea?
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I am currently a 31B in Fort Leonard Wood, for the last 9 months I have been trying to reclass to 46R. Just yesterday I was told I would be coming down on orders to Korea. Is there any way to avoid going to Korea and get my reclass to happen? I really want to be in this field and feel as though it is my best shot for professional development.
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46R: Public Affairs Broadcast Specialist
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46R: Public Affairs Broadcast Specialist Orders Fort Meade Reclass
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SPC Jacobs,
I have heard that the re-class process takes a little long...I have never done it, but that's what I heard. Now, if you're on orders to go to Korea, that's pretty much a done deal. I would embrace it and go to Korea, but also check with your Admin to know the status of your re-classification. Then again, what if you're able to re-class, and still go to Korea? That would be funny. Good luck!
I have heard that the re-class process takes a little long...I have never done it, but that's what I heard. Now, if you're on orders to go to Korea, that's pretty much a done deal. I would embrace it and go to Korea, but also check with your Admin to know the status of your re-classification. Then again, what if you're able to re-class, and still go to Korea? That would be funny. Good luck!
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Thank you for your input SSG, I will definitely stay on top of checking on updates. I personally have no issue going to Korea, I just would rather get my reclass and THEN go as a 46R than 31B.
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Once you get orders your chances drop dramatically. Ask the status of your request and talk to the S1 shop or who ever is pushing your packet.
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Just go to Korea. Your most likely going to go there sooner or latter might as well be now.
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Also, if here any active duty TV/radio journalist types near your installation, or you could call say some Army TV unit, doing videos that wind up on YouTube, just to verbally chat, when and/or if time ever permittedz, that, too was another thought I'd just had, you know?
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Another thought, there must ne schools, whether Army or other svcs, that you could submit for, for military journalism, have you ever thought to try for them at all, and see if this might interest you of course, to try for combat camera personal or AFN staff? I didn't know if you'd want that, I merely !mention it as it might evidence motivation, though never having deployed, it's merely a notion on my part, of courses I'd just thought the whole school or deployment thing worth suggesting...!maybe there'd be a need, you kmow? Just am idea, obviously....
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I don't know about you Rob, but the ROK was fun assignments for me and I enjoyed my stay there very much. Therefore, if you are reclassing just to avoid being assigned to the ROK, there is no honest way to do so. Be a Soldier and accept your assignments with a smile; you will learn to enjoy the tour. Try it.
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I have no doubt it would be enjoyable sir. I would not even have an issue going to Korea after the reclass. I have been trying to get this reclass for the last 9 months and getting sent to Korea now (as an MP) feels like a step in the opposite direction of where I want my career to go.
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CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
Not quite; however, what would you do in the ROK as Public Affairs Specialist anyway Rob? Think of the alternative. Be a great MP with a secondary MOS of 46R. Take the 46R course correspondence. Prior to the end of your tour in the ROK, request reclass to 46R. By then you would have completed a major portion of the course, or even all of it. Now; you are not going in any opposite direction of your objective. You are simply taking an alternate route to achieve your target.
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No, you cannot avoid your orders. When you Reclass, the Army pays for it and will send you TDY enroute to your AIT with the follow on of your duty station. You are placed on training and 90 days prior to training start you are placed on assignment. The two are part of the same process. The Army pays for your training so they move you to the location with the greatest need for that MOS.
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I wish I could help here, but I haven't been on the active side for a long time.. "Back in my day" I got out'a going to Korea with my buddies because I didn't have a full year until my ETS.. So I wound up in Somalia instead! ~I'm guessing your reluctance for Korea really might be more to do with the young lady.. Unfortunately, Uncle Sugar don't care.. Maybe check into PCS swaps? Side note, I'm a re-classed 46R, I got my MOS by volunteering for a deployment.. My point, is actually only that 46Q is probably the better way to go, career wise. Good luck!
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SFC, not that I am meaning to avoid Korea in total, I am okay with going. I meant more of reclass now, Korea later.
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And what you're being told here is in all likelihood right, certainly; as I may have mentioned, I never got to deploy or travel outside CONUS, quite frankly, I envy your chance to do so, actually...I understand your desire for the the other field, I'm just saying that as I'd had a chance, in all likelihood, to have gone to Europe, and got into another office on a PCA at my installation, I've always kinda wondered what such overseas travel would've been like, you know?
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Also, even if you do have to go to Korea, I'm quite certain there must obviously ne AFN or 46R units there, you could still always volunteer wit them, also, does your own present unit use public relations at all where yupou could make the transition gradually from inside your own organization at all? I'd just wondered....
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