What is the actual process for hometown recruiting after graduating OSUT?

1) SM in OSUT volunteers for HRAP and sends the request.

2) Recruiting station receives it and approves/denies it.

3) If approved, which it does not have to be as many center leaders do not particularly like it, the SM will report to the recruiting station for up to 14 days of TDY assisting the station. Called "free leave" by many.

4) After the end of the TDY, report to duty station.

It's been many years as i did this in the late 70's,so i do not if the rules are different, if you graduated in the top ?% of your class you could go home town recruiter,it was 30 days back then and could be extended by the station commander based on performance,it look's like it has been reduced to two weeks,hope this helps .

I have went through the regulation, I went to the website http://www.usarec.army.mil/support/hrap.htm and I have asked other recruiters and got different answers.

I was told that we (the Drill Sergeant) has to send the request. The request must go though the dead link above. After the request the recruiter would be able to go into that system and accept them or decline the request.

what I am thinking of doing is contacting the recruiters and personally asking them if they wouldn't mind having that Soldier return back to the station and work for the next 14 days. If the recruiter was cool with that I was just going to annotate it onto the leave form and once it is approves by our Battalion Commander I was going to call it a day. I just don't want to waste all that leg work for someone who is really not familiar with the program and say "no". but I guess that's the worst thing that can happen is the "no".

But any thoughts from any professionals that has done this. Thanks.