www.girightshotline.org (Delayed Entry Program) to!!! or The Real Story The oath you take to Call the become a member GI Rights Hotline: of the D.E.P. does not make you legally 1-877-447-4487 obligated to go to Produced by: Basic Training and Center on Conscience & War be in the United 1830 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20009 States military. Your recruiter wants you 202-483-2220 to believe that you www.centeronconscience.org Have you signed up for will get in trouble, the D. E. P.... even arrested, if you ...And now you don’t want to go? But you won’t! Your recruiter cannot force No matter what your recruiter you to go to basic training be- says, until you report for Basic Remember: cause as a member of the D. Training you are not in the U.S. E. P., you are NOT subject to Military. If you decide not to Recruiters have a job to do. military law. In fact, the Army join the military after signing up They have a certain quota instructs its recruiters that, with D.E.P., you are not legally they need to meet each under United States Military required to have any further month. If they don’t meet Regulations, they are not al- contact with your recruiter. You this quota, their careers are lowed to: may want to go out of town in jeopardy. It is in their best around your original date of interest to get you to: “threaten, coerce, manipulate, or enlistment to avoid pressure intimidate D. E. P. members, nor from your recruiter. You don’t may they obstruct separation requests. Sign up..... have to answer the door, the (USAREC Reg 601-56§3-1.c) ...At no time will any recruiter tell a D. E. P. phone, or go anywhere with enlistee he or she must ‘go in the Army your recruiter. If your recruiter or he or she will go to jail,’ or that ‘failure pressures you or tells you that Graduate..... to enlist will result in a black mark on you will be in legal trouble if his or her credit record,’ or any other you do not show up for Basic and go to basic statement indicating adverse action will Training, refer them to the occur if the applicant fails to enlist.” military regulations. training, at (Exerpted from which point USAREC Reg 601-95 §3-1.b.; see also So you don’t have to go. USAREC Reg 601-45 §2-3.h.) you count towards their The above regulations If you don’t go, quota... are for the Army, but you are not in the military. each branch has similar regulations. It’s as simple as that.