https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/how-long-should-an-instructor-stay-an-instructor <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I know that finding outstanding Instructors may be sometimes a difficult task...but with the norm being around 2 years, there are times where an Instructor may be at a school for 5-6 years because of their strength as an Instructor. <br /><br />What are your thoughts? Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:28:15 -0400 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/how-long-should-an-instructor-stay-an-instructor <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I know that finding outstanding Instructors may be sometimes a difficult task...but with the norm being around 2 years, there are times where an Instructor may be at a school for 5-6 years because of their strength as an Instructor. <br /><br />What are your thoughts? 1SG(P) Private RallyPoint Member Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:28:15 -0400 2015-04-23T18:28:15-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/how-long-should-an-instructor-stay-an-instructor?n=613902&urlhash=613902 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Three years! You are referring to what we used to call "homesteading". Yes, instructors like to hang around there as long as posssible to avoid obvious deployments etc....and you can't blame them. However, Three years then move em out! 1SG Brian Adams Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:34:29 -0400 2015-04-23T18:34:29-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/how-long-should-an-instructor-stay-an-instructor?n=614533&urlhash=614533 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I am currently serving as an instructor and in the BDE I am in it is a max of three years. After that it is back to the operational force. From my perspective I would only stay for three years and that would be it. I am a Forcecom Soldier through and through. SFC Private RallyPoint Member Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:06:32 -0400 2015-04-23T22:06:32-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/how-long-should-an-instructor-stay-an-instructor?n=615614&urlhash=615614 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>About 3 years. Things change too much out in the "Fleet" to be in the "Schoolhouse" any longer than that.<br /><br />You need to constantly swap people from one segment to the other so knowledge is cross pollinating. You don't want either side to get stagnant. Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:07:49 -0400 2015-04-24T10:07:49-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/how-long-should-an-instructor-stay-an-instructor?n=636387&urlhash=636387 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Three years is what our BDE says we must stay for. I say two years max because three years is too long to be away from the operational force. Three years is the max though and our branch is tracking that. SSG Private RallyPoint Member Sat, 02 May 2015 11:37:35 -0400 2015-05-02T11:37:35-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/how-long-should-an-instructor-stay-an-instructor?n=636679&urlhash=636679 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One to two years max. Three years is entirely too much time. I have been instructing for one year, and I am already feeling the monotony!!! 1LT(P) Private RallyPoint Member Sat, 02 May 2015 14:08:40 -0400 2015-05-02T14:08:40-04:00 2015-04-23T18:28:15-04:00