carpetbomb
Junior Member
What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? California
Ok, another AWOL question for you. I'm still waiting for a reply from GI Rights on an e-mail I sent them a couple days ago. While I wait for that response, I'm hoping you fine folks might be able to provide me with some information.
I've read over the other AWOL threads which have given be a lot of information, but I'm not terribly sure they apply to me.
I enlisted in the CA Army National Guard in 1993. I shipped out to Alabama completed my training, returned home and continued on with my training. Here's where my youthful stupidity shines brightest!
I showed up for all my drills except for the very last one. Due to various circumstances that seemed awfully important at the time (but just plain silly now) I didn't report for my final weekend drill. This is the drill where I return my gear and start the ETS process (I assume?)
I kept telling myself that I would go back the next month. Ok, the next drill. Ok, really, seriously.. the NEXT drill. I never made it back. That was back in 1996 and here it is now 2005.
I received some paper work from a division of the US Army (don't have the mail infront of me) stating that I didn't turn in my gear and that I was being billed. I paid what they told me I had to pay, and after that I pretty much figured that was the end of my military career.
Obviously, that wasn't the end of my career, right? I never officially left the Army. I never went through any paper work process.
This is some thing that I think about time to time... and here I am thinking about it now.
Any ideas/suggestions on what I should do? it's been so long now -- I really have no idea where to begin.
Thanks.
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mike
Ok, another AWOL question for you. I'm still waiting for a reply from GI Rights on an e-mail I sent them a couple days ago. While I wait for that response, I'm hoping you fine folks might be able to provide me with some information.
I've read over the other AWOL threads which have given be a lot of information, but I'm not terribly sure they apply to me.
I enlisted in the CA Army National Guard in 1993. I shipped out to Alabama completed my training, returned home and continued on with my training. Here's where my youthful stupidity shines brightest!
I showed up for all my drills except for the very last one. Due to various circumstances that seemed awfully important at the time (but just plain silly now) I didn't report for my final weekend drill. This is the drill where I return my gear and start the ETS process (I assume?)
I kept telling myself that I would go back the next month. Ok, the next drill. Ok, really, seriously.. the NEXT drill. I never made it back. That was back in 1996 and here it is now 2005.
I received some paper work from a division of the US Army (don't have the mail infront of me) stating that I didn't turn in my gear and that I was being billed. I paid what they told me I had to pay, and after that I pretty much figured that was the end of my military career.
Obviously, that wasn't the end of my career, right? I never officially left the Army. I never went through any paper work process.
This is some thing that I think about time to time... and here I am thinking about it now.
Any ideas/suggestions on what I should do? it's been so long now -- I really have no idea where to begin.
Thanks.
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mike