Originally Posted by
F224
Depends on your future employment plans and why you wanted to take the job in the first place. If it's just to make a quick buck and set yourself up for something better in the near tern, completely understandable that you would not want to make a two year commitment.
But if you're there to help out the troops on the ground and prevent some of the deaths and injuries from IED's or ambushes, then a two year commitment might not that big a deal.
Everyone has their own reasons for wanting to do this kind of job, in this kind of place.
My understanding is that it is a very one-sided commitment. The one year commitment requires that you give them at least 180 days deployed in one year without requiring them to deploy you at all. They could not have enough work for you and you're still on the hook until the end of your commitment. They will not tell you how much you're on the hook for either. Other training agreements generally have a set amount and let you off the hook if you're not actually working (furloughed).