by jamesbennett on January 13th, 2010

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Can you get out of the Army at the age 17 and after swearing in and signing the contracts?

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by ghost1986 on April 1st, 2010
Smoke a shit ton of weed before you go to basic training and when you take the piss test you will be kicked out
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by rose1980 on April 1st, 2010
Well, lets see now. At 17 you are a minor and the army will not except you. So, what are you talking about?
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by JClaphan on May 16th, 2010
I'm sorry to say this but these people are retarded. It's simple.. when you signed your contract at MEPs it states "Did your parents have any influence on you to join?" If you put no then they follow through with your contract.

All you have to do is tell your recruiter that your parents made you lie about that so that you could join and that your parents forced you into it. They will void your contract with no repercussions

Oh and by the way... whoever said you can't join the military at 17 wow you really don't know what your talking about...

Best way into the military

Junior year of high school during your summer break get enlisted and go to boot camp / basic so that when you come back to finish your senior year your time in service will still be in effect. When you graduate high school you'll go to AIT and have 1 year in time of service thus being a rank promotion.
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by mortarmaggot on January 25th, 2010
Sure you can, the trick however is doing it without visiting the hospital, jail, or mental facility.

You can always,
Fake being gay, (although you may have to conduct homosexual acts with other recruits before they beleive you.)

Fake a mental breakdown, suicide is always a good one (don't try to fake the act, tell people your feeling suicidal), other stuff is generally too hard to fake.

Break something hard and long to repair such as your collarbone.

All of the above are easy yet oh so hard and sucky ways to go about it. The hard at first but easiest on the rest of your life would be to just suck horribly at Basic Training and take an Entry Level Seperation.

The best thing of course is to man up and do your contract, it's not like it's a death sentence, in fact I've been in the military 8 yrs, been blown up a few times, and shot at a few but I'm still here, and still in one peice.

Whatever you do DO NOT DESERT. Thats a Federal arrest warrant, and if you ever get ID'd by a cop, anywhere, they'll arrest you on the spot and take you to the nearest base for the military's justice.
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by Hardcore Conservative on January 17th, 2010
What the hell did you sign up for, if you're already wanting out? Why waste your time and the taxpayer's money?

If it was up to me, you'd spend your contract in hard labor.
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by Moongrim on January 14th, 2010
Yes.

One can do so, if one chooses to chicken out and break one's word.
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- Hmmm -- so if you've made a stupid mistake, your a "chicken"??? I'd say only the most honorable people realize their mistake and act to correct it.
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  by Persky Bunkermeister on January 14th, 2010
- Considering how many times one is given a chance to NOT enlist...prior to signing up.
  
  Honorable? Perhaps. It's just as well that someone who cannot keep his contract gets out. Because some folks lives are riding on his lack of manliness.
  
  To Chicken out, is entirely an approprate metaphor.
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  by Moongrim on January 14th, 2010
- not sure I agree with that -- first of all... recruitment tactics are not what they used to be -- they tell you can you be a pilot, when only 1 in 100,000 are smart enough to be a pilot. Where I'm from, "chicken out" means don't stand up for yourself -- seems to me, the opposite is the case here with Mr Bennett.
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  by Persky Bunkermeister on January 14th, 2010
- If one doesn't have enough honor to fulfill a contract, then one doesn't have enough honor to serve in the military.
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  by Moongrim on January 14th, 2010
- It's always most honorable to do what is right for you -- no point "honoring" a contract that is wrong for you. This goes back to my original point -- remain true to yourself -- that is the most honorable -- to stand up for what is right. This "contract" idea is stupid -- people stay in unhappy marriages for their entire life, because they think they should, because of social values inflicted on them. You're just a bully to tell someone they don't have enough honor -- who appointed you judge jury and executioner? It's because of attitudes like yours that people shouldn't seek advice in places like this -- this is answerbag, but I see nothing "great" about your answer.
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  by Persky Bunkermeister on January 15th, 2010
- I thought the same thing after my entry into basic training.
  
  Unlike you I was mature enough to keep my word. With results that paid off in the long term in a most beneficial way. There was a time when folks were expected to keep their word.
  
  But we have lawyers now to prevent such.
  
  Do what is right for you? That is not honor, that is selfishness. That is the attitude the allows so much misery in the world.
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  by Moongrim on January 16th, 2010
- I agree moongrim, re:selfishness -- usually it's quite easy to tell if somebody is doing the right thing, of it they're being selfish. But there's not enough info in this question to judge if this person is 1) immature, or 2) selfish. It takes a great deal of maturity to not be selfish -- but not being selfish doesn't mean you should 'keep your word.' Keeping your word could be the stupidist thing you do -- especially if you feel you have been tricked -- which often happens in contracts, when the "fine print" is just too complicated for the average joe to read without a lawyer sitting at their side.
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  by Persky Bunkermeister on January 16th, 2010
- I dealt with the information given.
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  by Moongrim on January 17th, 2010
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by Persky Bunkermeister on January 14th, 2010
GI Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487

http://www.girightshotline.org/contact/index.shtml

Legal counselors there can answer any questions you have, in complete confidence. Much better than getting random and usually incorrect answers from websites like this -- not to mention all the hate filled vitriol I see here in answers to similar questions -- nothing "great" about those answers!
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by DigiTech on January 13th, 2010
Yes, but you have to have a legal guardian sign the forms since you are still considered a minor. It is the same with all military branches in the U.S..
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