Aaron Alexis Navy service appears to be short - May 2007 to January 2011?

[FarCenter]

Military personnel records show that Alexis spent nearly four years in the Navy as a full-time reservist from May 2007 until he was discharged in January 2011, according to a summary of his personnel records released by Navy officials at the Pentagon.

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In the Navy, Alexis achieved his final rank of Aviation Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class in December 2009. Officials said they did not immediately know the reasons for his discharge.

Alexis was assigned to the Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 46 at Naval Air Station Fort Worth for the bulk of his time in the military, from 2008 until he left the service in 2011, records show. He was awarded the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal— two common awards for military personnel.

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Srisan said Alexis lived there for a year and didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, and never missed a payment on his $600 a month rent.

Srisan said he doesn’t know why Alexis left his job at the base. They spoke about it only once, and it was a brief conversation, he said.

“I asked him, ‘Why you quit the job with the government?” Srisan said. “He said somebody doesn’t like me.”

Srisan said he didn’t ask any more questions because, “I don’t want to go too deep with him.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/aaron-alexis-34-is-dead-gunman-in-navy-yard-shooting-authorities-say/2013/09/16/dcf431ce-1f07-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html

Wouldn't less than 4 years of service indicate an early discharge?

[LiberalLoner]

1. That's what I was thinking too.

[gopiscrap]

2. Did he serve in the Middle East at all

maybe some PTSD going on?

[FarCenter]

4. His basic training was at Great Lakes

Presumably after that he trained in his specialty. That doesn't leave a lot of time before he is assigned in 2008 to Fort Worth.

Some Navy enlisted people were put into combat situations because of manpower shortages, but I would think that PTSD would be rare in the Navy.

[gopiscrap]

6. Maybe he got PTSD from having to live Texas

no seriously, I was thinking that just perhaps he was another victim of the Iraq and Afghanistan war.

[derby378]

3. There have been reports that he was now serving as a private military contractor

If true, they tend to pull down a lot more in the way of salary than your average enlisted sailor.

[Rex]

5. No.

3 to 4 years is average.

[haele]

7. TAR - two years active, two - four years reserve (weekend warrior type billets).

Very common for medical and technical reservists (Avionics is one) who require a significant amount (at least a year) of training. My brother did that to pay his way through his BSEE, and that plus his TAR training and billet maintaining the comm systems on SAR aircraft got him a pretty good career in avionics.

If the reservist isn't needed - if there are no reserve billet openings once the active duty time was over, the Navy would have went ahead and let him go "individual ready reserve" (IRR) as soon as they could; just keep him on callback status until his TAR enlistment was up.

That "sombody doesn't like me" suggests there was no openings once he finished the active component.

Haele

[DURHAM D]

8. On the Ed show they reported that he was in the reserves for 2 years

and then kicked out.


Update from MSNBC: He was discharged early for "Misconduct Issues"