If you are in entry level status and cannot—or will not—adjust socially or emotionally to military life or cannot meet the minimum standards of your training program, you may be eligible for separation. Entry level sta-tus is the first 180 days of active duty.
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They call it "failure to adapt to military life". They will do that if you can maintain discipline, proper hygiene, wake up on time (every day), and other various things of the sort. You will NOT have to "work off your debt".
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The only discharges available for him at this point are 'failure to adapt to military life', a medical discharge, or a discharge for lying on his initial enlistment. Again, ALL of those (with the possible exception of the medical) will prevent his being hired by any law enforcement agency for a considerable length of time.
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If he were to enlist and not make it through recruit training, it would be a "training discharge" for "Failure to adapt" to military life, more than likely. While it's not the best kind of discharge, it's not a bar to federal employment or most other jobs.
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I enlisted in the Army last month and am going for ... Even then you have 6 months to get out of the military under the "failure to adapt to military life" clause aka you're not too good at following orders and like to sleep in or anything else that does not go with the military lifestyle.
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I know there is a chapter for failure to adapt to military life, but I don't know if it is an honorable or OTH discharge. You can only get a dishonorable discharge if convicted by courts-martial, so that's not likely.
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During the next seven days they were introduced to military life: First, their heads were shaved, a ritual that signifies the loss of one’s individual identity, and was historically used to control lice and identify deserters.
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Attrition was defined as failure to graduate from basic training for any reason, including preexisting medical conditions, failure to adapt to military life, serious injury during basic training, or failure to meet standards on skills.
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Complain and whine enough about leaving and you wil be discharged and it will be noted as "Failure to adapt to military life". I dont think you can ever go back into the armed forces again though. Another option is fail the physical standards over and over.
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During the next seven days they were introduced to military life: First, ... When Medical Corp psychiatrists studied combat fatigue cases in the European Theater, they found that “fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure in the individual,” Marshall reported.
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