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sailor · 01-06-2004, 07:21 AM

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Originally posted by Seaver
If you are seriously interested make sure you look at all the available options. Recruiters have quotas to make so dont always tell the full truths, nor are they legally responsible for anything they say (or dont).

If you want to go to college look into ROTC. If you get the scholarship you go to college with books/tuition/fees paid as well as $350/month stipend. You choose a college that has the ROTC of whichever branch you choose (if you want Marine it's under Navy). You missed out on the 4 year scholarship (deadline in december), but you can join what is called a College Program, in which you pay your own way through college, and apply for the scholarship.

ROTC is basically you graduate from a major university with a degree (can be in anything). After you graduate you get commissioned as an officer, and require 4 years of service, or 8 as reserve. I am currently in this program for flight school, which because of the extended and expensive training the service is 10 years.

There is also in the Marines a program called MECEP program, in which you enlist and go through the normal elisted life. You sign up for the program as a Cpl. to get in, and if accepted you are pormoted to Sgt., and then attend the university. You get standard Sgt pay, but you have to pay your own schooling. Every branch has a program like this, Navy has OCS (Officer Training School), Air Force and Army have the same equivilants.

If you are serious about joining in any of the programs ask to talk to the recruiters Commander. He is responsible for anything and everything, and because the commander does not have to physically fill the quotas he will give you no BS answers. There are dozens of different ways to get your degree in the military, figure out which one tailors to your life the best before you sign any papers.

Oh yeah, and the chicks do dig the uniform.

Probably the best advice out here. If you want to do college and the military, make the military pay for it. Dont take what the recruiters say too seriously--as was said, they have a quota to fill, and will say damn near anything to get you to enlist.