What impact will joining SF in the NG have on my goal to pursue a federal law enforcement career? Can I transfer from NG SF to AD SF?

My advise to you is to come up with a Plan and execute it. This going back and forth and wanting to do multiple things simultaneously is a lot harder than it needs to be. Go active duty, get an 18X contract, complete the Q-course. Do your enlistment in Group then get out and join the feds. Being in an active duty Group will help you when it’s time to go to the academy. I guarantee it.

Yes you can go to an academy, you should transfer to the Inactive National Guard (ING) for the six months that it takes to complete it.
Yes you can transfer to AD, but that would not be conducive to a job with CBP.
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Hey,

I would say you have a choice to make on which on you wanna do first. More than likely civilian career or job is highly encourage in any soldier in the guard. Furthermore, in the guard it is a process going to Q course. If your state has a group and you complete and make the SFRE event cut out you will placed on a train up team for a max time of 6 months in preparation for Q course. As you are aware it’s a lengthy process becoming SF in general. However, once you get tabbed and completed then I would worry about civilian job or career or vise versa.

My point is that you need to make a choice on what you want to do first and execute don’t waste time and everyday counts.

You want to go SF goes without saying fitness is a high priority for you know and mot only being fit but training correctly to avoid or limit your capability of becoming injured even before you get there.

* I was on my way with the 19th SF group in RI and my home unit got deployed before I got the chance to transfer over. I’m heading back to the group to re do the SFRE for re evaluation to be brought on.

In regards to your question you can always go active SF after completing for the guard but more than likely you will owe that unit and state time in their ranked after getting tabbed prior to getting released or what they call 368 conditional Release.

Also, the pipeline is anywhere from 52-64 week taking in account airborne school and some wiggle room in between waiting school dates, however, you will PCS to Fort Brag until you complete the course and graduate then be sent back to your home states. This applies to the guard version. Active duty is straight shoot when you enlist as 18X contract and go through the motions.

I hope this helps and Good luck!