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Of course there is. You just stop doing your job and insist on being let out. Or go UA and get caught: They’ll take your stripes and OTH you and you can be on your way.
But I suspect what you’re asking is if there’s an easy way to get out early with an honorable discharge, and the answer is no, of course not.
i was thinking ummmm this is not good advice LOL.
Not really. Easiest I've seen is by illness or injury, but I wouldn't recommend. I knew a guy who tried to eat his way out. That was a painful few years for him. You could refuse to take promotion tests. Sometimes that works depending on how staffed the career field is.
I was friends with a woman who wrote a pretty compelling letter to her leadership (base and cc'd theater I think?) as to why she could no longer be considered an asset to the military and how it would be in everyone's best interests to kick her out. That actually worked, and she flew back home with an honorable discharge a few months later.
I have three parents with cancer and one is terminal, I feel like I need to be around for them. Is that considered “hardship”
Absolutely, imo, but we're not your first sergeant. I think there are actual rules on that if you are firstborn or only child.... Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
How much longer do you have on your enlistment ?
2 years
I don't think so either, it's generally either illness or injury as well. You can do the bare minimum essentially but even then, I don't think it happens
Best to find a way to make it more palatable- find a collateral billet or Individual Augment to pass the time. If you’re junior enlisted - gut it, they can’t stop time, and just prepare for the next phase of life (ie. Figure out what you want to do, take college prep or head school exams, and set up informational calls/interviews with people in jobs you think may be interesting to see how they got there.
Get out with that Honorable Discharge, 100% Post-911 GI Bill eligibility, and some good references from your officers/NCOs that you can use down the road.
If you try to get out fast, you end up throwing away all the work you did to get there, burning bridges, and sometimes putting yourself in a worse situation legally.