Advise on military service record.
Ok so I'm just going to be 100% honest. I don't want your opinions. Im asking for legitimate advise and I don't care if you think I'm a scumbag or if you think I could have done this different. I enlisted in the ARNG at the age of 17 in my junior year of high school. I was going through some really rough situations at home and in my neighborhood. I grew up on the streets of NY pretty much. Ghetto vill usa. I went into the recruiters office hoping to find a quick way to get the hell outa there. When I was talking to the recruiter he told me that I could enlist at 17 because I was emancipated and could only do that if I joined the national guard but not to worry I could immediately change branches to AD as soon as I got out of ait. I did really well in basic maxed my apft shot expert and scored top of my class in ait. When I got home an attempted to make the change to active duty I was told my recruiter lied to me and I couldn't change branches of service. So I was stuck right back into my crappy situation in my crappy little town with the threat of being stabbed always lingering in the back of my mind every time I walked to the gas station. Needless to say I made it to my first few drill weekends. I absolutely hated it. Now that didn't stop me from trying. As I tried and tried to find a job to support myself 28 days of the month to walk 15 miles to a the most ate up unit ion the planet I started to get really sick. I didn't have the money for food and I barely managed to stay indoors. I was registered homeless the entire time and eventually I couldn't make it to BA anymore. No one wanted to help. I mean there wasn't a soul who could be bothered to pick me up for drill in my entire unit. Eventually I started getting the Us. After I missed several battle assemblies and after I tried explaining the hardship aspect of my situation I was transferred to the irr and then generally discharged for continuos and willfull absence. I hate that unit so much. A year later I was contacted bey an Army career councilor who wanted to help with my issue (a year after my discharge) She said she couldn't help me go active but I could get in the reserves an go active from there. So I joined the reserves and was put in a unit 116 miles away from my house. On top of that because I was discharged ahead of my contract end I owed back my sign on bonus. Which I never even received. So in 5 years of reserve service I've never been paid. `my les is like one giant list of debt. Needless to say I fell back into the same slump. Even my CO and my Battalion commander tried to help but no one could find a way to help me just short of putting me up and handing me a job. Literally even mcdonals isn't hiring and my area has an outstanding rate of unemployment and welfare families. After a year or two of struggling running into debt and basically repeatedly getting into debt with the Reserves I requested a transfer to the irr to get my bearings. My friend offered me a place to stay in long beach CA I'm on the other side of the country now and would like to make up for my failiures in my previous attempts in the service. Is there anyway that anyone knows of that I can get into a brach of service that is active duty and excepting temporary irr and a dd368? Or any advise to fix my military career?