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Long story short: very dissatisfied with first duty station and would like to depart as quickly as possible. The standard PCS cycle is 3 years, but I've heard of people leaving after 2 if requested.
Does anyone have experience doing so? My fear is that I know things can always get worse, such as ending up in an operational or administrative position rather than my subspecialty. My understanding is that in order to initiate this request, I let my HRC officer know my desire to leave and that puts me back in the cycle and opens up my current position on AIM2. My concern is that I won't have visibility of AIM2 prior to initiating this and won't really know what's even available, other than very early information from my consultant that's subject to change based on personnel needs(due to retirement, others' PCS, etc.).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Does anyone have experience doing so? My fear is that I know things can always get worse, such as ending up in an operational or administrative position rather than my subspecialty. My understanding is that in order to initiate this request, I let my HRC officer know my desire to leave and that puts me back in the cycle and opens up my current position on AIM2. My concern is that I won't have visibility of AIM2 prior to initiating this and won't really know what's even available, other than very early information from my consultant that's subject to change based on personnel needs(due to retirement, others' PCS, etc.).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.