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4.2

78% would recommend to a friend

(1,999 total reviews)
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Joseph L. Lengyel

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62% positive business outlook

Army National Guard has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,999 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Army National Guard employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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4.0
Sep 12, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Training, people, money and experience. There are a lot of chances to deploy and get technical training, but fewer chances to get hooah courses.

Cons

Hard to balance civilian career with a successful guard career. Training and deployments lead to a successful guard career at the expense of your civilian job.

4.0
Aug 29, 2017

Good job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is a clean enviornment and nothing too much difficult

Cons

But there is no time specifications no time table and had to work whenever asked to do soo

4.0
Nov 28, 2016

Nat. Guard, Truck Driver (88M)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Having to show up one weekend per month gives you more time to family and personal needs. - Summer training gives you active duty pay, which is usually worth more than your Nat. Guard annual salary. - Can oftentimes makeup drills or even annual training if conflicts arise (better tell your chain of command as far in advance as possible, though).

Cons

- Pay is rather pitiful if you have bills to pay. - Army is heavily dependent on ranking for how others are treated with respect, so don't expect any when you're below an E-4. Even then, you might be treated differently than the long-term E-4s in the unit. - Driving a truck for long hours can sometimes result in your not returning to home until 2AM (situational). - You'll be bored with little to do at the unit, but given a mission, you'll either sweat to death at Ft. Stewart or choke on someone smoking in the truck with you. - As long as you're not, at least, an E-5, expect to be shredding paper for someone or endlessly copying documentation (which you'll likely end up shredding anyways). - No matter what your orders are, expect to do things in the most complicated and unnecessary way possible.

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