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?