West Point VS ROTC for Soldiers Already in?

mrgreenapple
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:45:04 +0000

Rogue22, your contract “counts down” while you’re at west point. If you quit with 12 months or less on your contract then WP has the option of just cutting you free or sending you back to your unit. If the time runs out before the start of your junior year then you have the option of staying or leaving.

There is a 5 year mandatory active duty commitment, and 3 years IRR (which your time in will already count against). I don’t know if everyone quite understands what IRR is but its not the same thing as the Reserves. You don’t do your one weekend a month stuff. You’re just on a list. From what I understand, all initial military contracts are 8 years. Mine was 4 active duty with 4 IRR. IRR time starts counting down the second you signed your enlistment contract

USMA or ROTC. Each person wants something different out of college. I think you can gather that USMA life isn’t normal college life so things specific to you is the fact that youre going to be treated like an E-ioweyouone for the first year. You’re not going to have money. And you’re not going to have any time. The benefits are that you’re going to have a lot closer friends, know more officers when you get into the army, be able to attend military schools in the summer easier, and get a much better overall education than most other schools.