Reply #22: A "September 11" enlistee, I suspect. [View All]

[MADem]

Probably NO DEP (Delayed Entry Program).

They got a (forgive the expression) SURGE of patriotic enlistees after that event. The MEPS were swamped with people wanting to join.

He probably took the ASVAB one day, had his physical exam the next, was sworn in, and did what is called in some branches a 'direct ship.' They do an ENTNAC (Entrance National Agency Check) and if his name doesn't pop up as a criminal, they ship him without doing the full National Angency Check (NAC). I'll bet he lied about his medications, denied mental illness on his physical questionnaires, and may well have been OFF his medications when he was in boot camp, and up until he was discharged early the following year.