Does a military recruiter have the authority to cancel your DEP contract if you don't go to the meetings?

Question

Does a military recruiter have the authority to cancel your DEP contract if you don't go to the meetings?

Answer 1

Short and most accurate answer: yep. She can. You can join he air force with debt, provided it is well managed (meaning not in collections, history of late payments, nothing in collections) and as long as there is nor TOO MUCH of it. Credit History is important in the Air Force (kind of like it is in real life). You can’t likely get a security clearance with too much or bad debt that you are not making significant progress to pay off, and every job in the Air Force requires a clearance of some level. Can she give you a drop-dead date? Yep. Her time is busy. A lot of people want to get in the Air Force so she does not have a lot of time to wait for you to show you are serious – she’ll just devote her time to someone else

Answer 2

Consider what it is you are actually doing when you sign a DEP contract: You are applying for a job. Like any employer in the world they can choose who they hire and who they don't. Recruiters don't work for you. They work for the military. Their job is to put warm bodies in available slots. You're not the only applicant out there. They can find ten other applicants just like you. So if a candidate looks like a bad bet, they'll drop you like a hot rock.



DEP candidates have a nasty habit of dropping out of the program and running into other trouble. It takes a lot of time and effort to get someone enlisted. Recruiters don't want to waste their time. The DEP meetings are there to mitigate some of the problems candidates run into. Among other things, it keeps you in regular contact with your recruiter.



Back to the job analogy: You haven't been hired yet. If you don't meet the obligations your employer has set for you, you don't get the job. If you decide not to show up for one of your orientation days at that job and don't tell anyone, you're simply fired. If your employer expects you to be somewhere and you no-show you can expect your employer to not be your employer anymore.



If your recruiter refuses to continue working on your enlistment, then you're not joining the military. You haven't gone anywhere yet. You're not in the military yet. If you want to be, you might want to try doing the things you're told to the first time. That's going to be a recurring theme throughout your military career so you might want to get used to that right now. Your recruiter expects you at those meetings. Fail to attend and/or notify them and they can decide you're not worth their time and effort anymore.

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Answer 3

You are already a reservist. He cannot cancel it. He has to declare you AWOL and bring you up on charges. Nobody knows what the results of your Non Judicial Punishment or Court Martial will be. If he told you that they are cancelling contracts I would believe that is what his commander is doing right now as punishment. This will not be your recruiter actually. It will be his commanding officer.

Answer 4

Yes I do believe a recruiter can discharge you for not showing up to meetings ( not too sure though so don't quote me) Even so whether or not they will is a different story. If you have a legitimate reason for not being able to attend and tell your recruiter before hand it more than likely isn't going to be a problem. On the other hand if you don't show up because you didn't feel like it, your recruiter may give you a warning and if you continue to miss meetings with out informing your recruiter and having a legitimate reason for missing they probably will take it that you're not serious about the military and will drop you from the DEP.

Answer 5

Yes he or she does. You have the obligation to go to DEP meetings. At the very least you need to keep your recruiter informed if there is a valid reason to miss a meeting. You would need to tell them why you need to miss a meeting and get approval beforehand. You can't just not show up and think it is OK.



I don't know what your situation is, but you need to get serious about whether or not you want to be in the military in the first place. You miss meetings and work once you are in then they will get more serious with you and charge you with being AWOL..

Answer 6

Yep. They're the gatekeepers of the military. His job is to keep f*cksticks out before they become problems later on.



DEP is an obligation under your contract turd

Answer 7

nope

Answer 8

Yes he does. He has absolute authority to no longer work with you for any reason. He does not work for you. He works for his branch