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The Service concerned may separate an enlisted member for the convenience of the Government for college or vocational/technical school enrollment prior to expiration of the member's obligated service if each of the following is true:
- The member is in a Reserve Component and none of the following is true:
- The member is on Initial Active Duty for Training.
- The member is ordered to Active Duty due to unsatisfactory participation in a reserve assignment.
- The member is in an active component and at least one of the following is true:
- The member will not have a Reserve Component obligation upon separation.
- The member will have completed more than twenty-one months of Active Duty during the member's current term of obligated service when the member will have a Reserve Component obligation upon separation.
- The member is not seeking to qualify for citizenship by completion of three years of Active Duty military service unless the member is transferred to Inactive Duty in a Reserve Component.
- The member's service is not critical to the mission of the member's assigned organization.
- The latest acceptable registration date for the school to which the member is requesting to be separated to attend is within the last three months of the member's remaining service.
- The member furnished documentary evidence that the member has been accepted for enrollment commencing with a specific school term, in a recognized institution of higher education, in a full-time resident course of instruction, leading to an associate, baccalaureate, or higher degree, if the member is requesting discharge to attend college.
- The member presented documentary evidence that the member has been accepted for enrollment commencing with a specific school term, in a full-time resident course of instruction of substantial duration (no less than three months), at a recognized vocational or technical school if the member is requesting discharge to attend vocational/technical school.
- The member has demonstrated the ability and willingness to make the required payment of an entrance fee.
- The member has clearly established that the specific school term for which the member seeks release is academically the most opportune time to begin or resume education and that delay of enrollment until normal expiration of service would cause undue handicap. |