Joining the Air Force While in College?

Polkusa
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 02:57:14 +0000

If my kids asked me what service I would recommend I would say # 1 Air Force and # 2 Navy or Coast guard. Being an officer is great, but if you don’t have money for college, not always an option. ROTC scholarships are competitive and a great choice if you can get it. I was enlisted as a reservist while completing Navy ROTC followed by medical school. Just remember if you are in ROTC, they are training you to be an officer upon graduation from college and you will get orders to report for active duty on college graduation. They won’t guaranteee allowing you to go to law school which is what you said are your plans. I received Navy orders to Japan my senior year of college upon commissioning/graduation from ROTC. Navy ROTC granted a TOTAL of 25 waivers nationwide to defer active duty for medical school. I was lucky to be one of those 25, allowing me to defer my active duty and getting the orders to Japan canceled to attend medical school. Another route is to go to officer candidate school after graduation, but not everyone that has a bachelor’s degree is accepted as an officer. I see college grads all the time that I clear at MEPS but they are waiting for a military board to approve their officer application (hard to join if you aren’t a STEM major with only a bachelor degree). Some people I do physicals on were not accepted to OCS even with a college degree so enlist as there are many enlisted to officer programs. I am only saying don’t rule out being enlisted as your first post sounds like it is difficult to pay for college. I would check on trying to get an ROTC scholarship first but keep an open mind. If you go ROTC be prepared to have them not allow you to go to law school.