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Hi everyone! my name is Pam and I live in Tinley Park, Il.  My son, Chris wants to join the Navy and estimated boot camp is July/August 2015. Here is my question; Chris will still be 17 when he joins. His birthday is at the end of September when he turns 18. He wants me to sign a waiver allowing him to go in at 17! I know I still have a year to stress about this but being who I am(LOL) I have been stressing for a while about this now! Any thoughts on this??  Good idea or not?

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It is now required that you must be 18 upon completion of boot camp.  So whats a couple months with the waiver?  
What is helpful is your son would fall into a new weird rule we have for those that just completed their junior year, and about to enter their senior year. That rule allows them to join the DEP program and be in it for 15 months (455 days).  Normally, it's only one year (365 days).

Here is the rule:
 

He cannot ship to the RTC more than 60 days prior to his 18th birthday. If you sign the waiver it will allow him to go to MEPS and get a contract for a rating and a ship date and enter the Delayed Entry Program (DEP) and give him almost a year to prepare. If you don't sign and he doesn't start the process until he is 18, then he may not have as long in DEP to prepare or he may have another year before he ships depending on what contracts and ship dates are available.

He will be joining in August and turn 18 about 5-6 weeks later.

I misread your original comment and thought that he would turn 18 in 2015. Since he turns 18 this year, it is totally up to you whether you sign and let him start the process and enter DEP a month or so before he can if you choose not to sign for him.

Ooops, that should say 90 days, not 60 days.

As of April 13, 2011, 17 year old applicants may enlist into the Delayed Entry Program but may not ship prior to their 18th birthday, unless their 18th birthday will occur no later than 90 days from date of shipping. 

See this note on page 19 of the Navy Recruiting Manual for Enlisted at http://www.cnrc.navy.mil/publications/Directives/1130_8J%20VOL%20II....

Note 1: 17 year old applicants may enlist into the Delayed Entry Program but may not ship prior to their 18th birthday, unless their 18th birthday will occur no later than 90 days from date of shipping. All other notes regarding enlistment of 17 year old applicants still apply.

Great idea.

Our daughter enlisted days after her 17th birthday in August 2003. (Mom signed the waiver. No stress.) She was in DEP her entire senior year. Shipped out in July 2004 and turned 18 about a week before boot camp graduation. Ten years later, she's been places and done things none of us could have imagined, And the Navy has paid for most of her college education along the way.

She's thinking of getting out at the end of her current enlistment. Mom and I both think she should stay in as long as the economy is shaky, but its her call.

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