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It shouldn't be unless you have some fairly significant negatives in your personnel file. I left the Army reserves in 1995 after 10 years. I was out for 7 years then reenlisted in the Army National Guard in 2005 at the age of 49. I had no trouble at all. In fact, at my recruiters suggestion, I reenlisted for just one year, then did a second 6 year reenlistment after the year was up. This qualified me for a $6k reenlistment bonus.

They are not “sector’s” they are Branches.There are numerous reasons:Most people jumping form the Marine Corps to the Army, is to get more opportunities for high speed training like sniper, ranger, etc.Some people will move from the Marine Corps to the Army because they simply can not hack Marine Corps life.I do not know of many people going from the Army to the Marine Corps in the 21st century, but back in the day many guys moved from the Army to the Marine Corps for a full time job, back before WWII the majority of the land fighting forces were reserve positions within the National Guard.Some guys do it because they have something to prove.Jumping form the Army to the Navy or the Air Force generally happens because the guys can’t hack Army life, so they choose a branch of service they feel has less of this.The Majority of people who jump from the Navy or Air Force into the Army do so in the National Guard, they do it because they are looking for a reserve unit, close to home.For me, it was a simple move. I got an alcohol related incident, and a Captains Mast (article 15) where I was reduced in grade from E-4 to E-3, and then I was not recommended for reenlistment. This had nothing to do with my overall performance and everything to do with the fact that many leaders in the Navy are petty assholes. So I went into the Army.The Army, at that time, had a try two program for prior enlisted they sent you through an “accelerated” basic training of 6 weeks and then into the field for which your Navy rate directly transferred over to, for me I had two basic choices a 15 series (aviation) or a 33 series (Intelligence) I took the intelligence with an aviation aspect to it, and became a 33R, later a 33T. I did my two and then went into the Army reserves. I did a year in the reserves and then transferred to the National Guard as part of the draw down and BRAC (base realignment and closure) of the 1990’s.I am not sure if I would have stayed in the Army or not. I was trying to get away form the nerd patrol by joining the Army, and i ended up in the nerd patrol as part of the Intel field. The problem with the nerd patrol, is that may of these guys were fucked with as kids, and then they join the military and they have power, and they abuse it. What I wanted to do, in the Army, was be infantry. But I did not have that option on active duty, instead I got to do that in the National Guard, and I loved it. But I only had to deal with it 2.5 days a month, and 2 weeks in the summer. I am not sure if I would have been happy as an infantryman on active duty or not.I got off active duty in the army in 1995, I did this because I was not happy with the intel field, and they would not let me reclassify to infantry. Now, if I had known then, what I know now, I would have applied for Special forces. That would have gotten me a reclassification to Infantry, and i would have had to go thorough infantry school, and if i rocked out of SF training I could go to an infantry line unit, but I did not know that.

You should be able to request a lateral move at any time during your enlistment. It may not be granted if you have little time in your enlistment so far (particularly if it’s your first enlistment). You do not have to re-enlist to make a lateral move. UNLESS that move requires additional MOS training - then the Corps may require you to re-enlist (such as if you’re moving from one field to another and you don’t have enough time remaining on your current enlistment to go through the new MOS’ school and work in the field. Within a field, it might not be a big deal. For example, I and a couple of other marines in my unit made Lat moves from 4063 to 4066 in 1995. The request was made when I was at the 2 year mark on my first enlistment. Perhaps a month before it. These were approved without re-training, because we were all doing the 4066 job and had been for some time - as in ever since we got to the unit out of school, or - in the case of my Staff Sgt who was the senior enlisted person in the section, ever since small systems support became a thing in the 80s. The entire process took maybe 6 weeks in that case.