ANC Nov Board & M5 ID

Georgiaboy,

There was a time (almost 2 years ago) when the AMEDD was accepting applicants up to the age of 60 (62 but after 51 1/2 you need a waiver that can take up to 1 1/2 yrs to get) in any AOC (professional specialty, i.e. 66H).

The Army G1 came out and stated that AMEDD has been ignorng the regs (to put it simply) and the G1 will no longer allow that to happen. The ONLY ones who can come in after age 42 are Physicians and Dentists.

There is an OAPP program for those over the age that can come in but there are no incentives offered. As an RN you cant join Active Duty.

The Reserves is still taking applications for 66H. The incentives have been changed and may not reflect that website (I cant access it right now : ( )

The incentives for Reserve 66H are:

15K bonus - paid $5k a year for 3 years

OR

$50k Student Loan Repayment Program for 3 years

You cant take both (you could as of last year) either one or the other.

Specialty Nurses can get up to $60K bonus for 3 years AND $50K Student Loan Repayment for 3 years. $110K package for 6 years of Reserve duty, approx. 38 days a year.

Georgiaboy,

Let me clear my last statement.

You can join the Army as an RN but only with the 2 year OAPP program and with NO incentives. But you would still have to get selected.

New1LT,

You have me intrigued. How did you get to OBLC without being selected???

I've been wondering the same thing & was just as confused :)

She is on reserve going to active duty...im at work right now lol

I'm thinking I'm not classified as an M5 at the moment because I was just under 2 years of ER experience....but my contract is stated 66H med/surg WITH a promised ER specialty course to make me certified for that. I didn't see M5 on my contract... I was told by my recruiter that I would go into the specialty course "immediately after OBLC"...let's hope that's what it means & is what I was promised! It not being true would reallllyyyyy disappoint me. God sure knows I can't be stuck on a med/surg floor -not my thing.

look at your contract... if it is the standard specialty course guarantee it would outline the timeline requirements and what courses are available (which in the 'course guarantee' excludes ER and public health) but just review the contract.

ER nurse community is very small in the army.

look at your contract... if it is the standard specialty course guarantee it would outline the timeline requirements and what courses are available (which in the 'course guarantee' excludes ER and public health) but just review the contract.

ER nurse community is very small in the army.

Thanks for helping with some "specifics"...I need ALL the help I can get there, as the contract has been the one thing I've been warned to really look at...however we're not always aware when the lingo is a little foreign to us for sure!

look at your contract... if it is the standard specialty course guarantee it would outline the timeline requirements and what courses are available (which in the 'course guarantee' excludes ER and public health) but just review the contract.

ER nurse community is very small in the army.

Oh & I do know that I have already signed another "specialty course agreement" a few weeks ago where the "psychiatric course" was crossed out & my recruiter put "ED" in it's place & we both initialed by it. Sooooo.....hope that's valid enough :).

I just wanted to say I've been on these boards for a while... I'm excited to say I was selected at this board and will be a 66H. Truly excited. Congrats to my future peers and to those not-selected keep hope alive, keep working to achieve that goal.

Congtraulations just_cause!..I didn't know you are also waiting:lol2:.. I thought you are already in active duty...anyway, :ancong!: again!!!

I believe new1LT is like me, a Reservist going Active. I just completed my 4 week BOLC-RC (Reserve Component) in Oct.

Oh & I do know that I have already signed another "specialty course agreement" a few weeks ago where the "psychiatric course" was crossed out & my recruiter put "ED" in it's place & we both initialed by it. Sooooo.....hope that's valid enough :).

I would just keep in mind that the specialty course agreement states those four options are what you have to choose from - and elsewhere specifically states against community health and ER as these are very small (as in manpower) specialty areas.... Also those two courses require the recommendation or endorsement of the chief nurse of a specialty after 1 year of service at a duty station. IMHO that does not sound like a 'guarantee' by any means on its own. I don't think a recruiter (assuming no other paperwork is involved) crossing a line out will enable that to happen. I think most people hit their first duty station, make a good impression, and work with chain of command to head towards the community health or ER route and have to be flexible with needs of the army.

Not trying to be a downer but crossing that out sounds fishy to me... a standard recruiter wouldn't have the option to offer anything outside of the allocated options available anyhow. Perhaps SFC J on this forum can chime in. I don't think it would be an option anyhow so if that's the case I wouldn't sweat it as long as you acknowledge that your cross out might not equate to that course.

best of luck.