wiat wait wait let me get this straight you joined the Nat'l guard. well first thing is anyone YOU know who is contemplating joining tell them one thing: tell the recruiter exactly what it will take to get them to join and GET IT IN WRITING WITH BOTH SIGNATURES!! now as for your situuation like i said earlier you are not officially in until you swear in at your first duty station (AIT) also the army no longer does boot camp then AIT its called OSUT now and he didnt lie about 2 weeks of AIT. youll do 2 weeks AIT after 5 weeks of basic training. when you told him you couldnt do AIT in the fall you should be able to contact the adjutant and get your AIT moved up to a summer AIT. that way you can do all 7 weeks in the summer. also you can go live wherever you want you just have to report to you unit once a month. your best bet now would be to contact a california recruiter explain th situation to him and see if he can help you. what you signed should have also stated WICH state you were signing up to sevre with. also contact another local recruiter and see what they can do.

you never did say what your MOS is i was a 19k, m-1 armour crewman and i had 14 weeks.