The Army plans to reduce the maximum enlistment age for new enlistees who have no prior military service from 42 to 35 on 1 April 2011, in order to position the Army to better address lower accession missions and end strength.
By increasing the maximum enlistment age to 42 in 2006, the Army increased the number of qualified applicants by 66 million and allowed older Americans the opportunity to serve in wartime.
While older recruits have been good Soldiers and have served the nation well, the current recruiting environment allows the Army to be more selective. There has been higher attrition (3% or more) for these older Soldiers as well as higher rates of disabling injuries and other health conditions than for younger Soldiers. Both these factors warranted the change.
This change doesn’t affect prior service applicants or our officer accession programs. Our officer accession programs are in most cases even more stringent for age, with the exception of health care professionals and Chaplains.
Background
The Fiscal Year 2006 National Defense Authorization Act gave the Army permission to raise the active Army enlistment age to allow those persons who have not reached their 42nd birthday to enlist.
The Army had raised the active Army age limit to 40 in January 2006 as an interim step while it worked out details that were necessary before the 42 year limit could be implemented. Prior to January 2006, an active Army applicant could not have reached his or her 35th birthday. The Army Reserve age limit was raised from 35 to 40 in March 2005.
“Everyone… message was released today… effective date is April 1st.
If you have already enlisted and are under contract, you will go to training as scheduled.
From April 1st and on, if you are going Active Duty you will need to be contracted and shipped to BCT before your 35th birthday.
If you are going Army Reserve, you would need to just be contracted before your 35th birthday.
If you are prior service and going Active, your past Active Federal Service time will be subtracted from your age. If you that new age is under the age of 35, you can still join.
For Prior Service trying to go Reserve you must be at least 18 years of age and be able to retire before you are 60.
ALSO… IF you are working with a Recruiter and will be over the age of 35 before April 1st comes along and they determine that you have accomplished “substantial enlistment processing” (i.e. appointment conducted, physically qualified, or pending physical results) , they might still allow you to process IF you will be enlisted before May 1st. This is something I recommend you talk to your Recruiters about to see if you meet this “substantial enlistment processing” criteria.
You should be able to find the exact message on the USAREC FB page, if you would like to read it yourself.”
Пытался найти any official message of USAREC regarding this case, no success:letmein: Насколько это соответсвует действительности?
Но вопрос о достоверности следующего:
“…IF you are working with a Recruiter and will be over the age of 35 before April 1st comes along and they determine that you have accomplished “substantial enlistment processing” (i.e. appointment conducted, physically qualified, or pending physical results) , they might still allow you to process IF you will be enlisted before May 1st…”