Yes if you had the split option of doing basic and performing AIT on a later date.
You'll still be categorised as National Guard, but yes. You'll go through the exact same BCT and AIT (or else OSUT) as the Regular Army and Army Reserve do.
How long your training in the National Guard depends on what your MOS (your job) is. The least technical jobs are shorter in length, while the more technical jobs are generally greater in length. If you want an estimate, you can expect training to be a minimum of 13 weeks, with some of the longer training to be over a year. Again, it all depends on how technical your MOS is.
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If your National Guard Unit is ordered on actiuve duty and sent to Iraq, YES.
There is not a main contact for National Guard Recruiting. Instead, anybody interested in joining the National Guard can go the their website and contact a recruiter closest to them.
If you are thinking about a possible career with the National Guard you should first graduate high school. Then go down to the National Guard induction center in your area and apply for entrance.
Yes. National Guard units are deploying both to Iraq and Afghanistan. Here in North Carolina, the NC National Guard just recently returned from Iraq, and my two deployments to Iraq have been with National Guard units.
There is no Army National Guard Basic Training - they all go to Army BCT or OSUT. That being said, you can send them - that part isn't an issue. Whether they're allowed to actually have the cookies or not is a different matter. Depending on their Drill Sergeant and their unit, they may either not be allowed to have them, or only be allowed to have them if there's enough to share with their entire platoon. Better to just save the cookies for when they get back.
The only way to be enlisted into any military branch of service is through a recruiter.
yes. Just ask the sargent.
Civilians can get onto post. National Guard members can get onto post. However, being in the National Guard will not get you access to restricted access installations. For example, access to Cheyenne Mountain is very strictly controlled, and being in the National Guard without a legitimate reason for being there will not get you access.
First, there is no Air Force National Guard. It is called the Air National Guard. The military does not train anyone to become a doctor. You would go to med. school yourself and upon completion of the course, join the Air Guard as a physician.