Don't forget that ROTC scholarship does not bar you from using the post 9/11 GI Bill (only OCS guys could get Montgomery GI Bill) if you decide to further your education after undergrad and military service. That could be useful if when you get out all the civilian jobs go away!
Thanks, this has really helped answer a lot of questions. Though, it has also given me time to think of another:
What if the school does not have AFROTC it only has AROTC. Would I still be able to persue an aviation career in the Airforce or am I SOL?
That would be up to the Army to decide, but you'd probably be stuck until you were done with your commitment and put in for an interservice transfer. Apply for all the ROTC programs, see what you are accepted for, and then apply to a school with that program. You've got to be very open minded in the military, and it might as well start with the variety of universities that you can attend. Don't limit your future and long term goals for four short years... Unless you are talking ivy league or some top-tier-best-of-the-best university program.
Don't forget, just because your school doesn't offer AFROTC doesn't mean you can't be a member of AFROTC (and/or be on scholarship). Often you can commute to a school that does have a program.
Obviously contingent on there being a school within a reasonable distance. If there is--completely doable. I looked a number of schools in exactly that scenerio back when I was applying, I doubt it's changed.
Don't forget, just because your school doesn't offer AFROTC doesn't mean you can't be a member of AFROTC (and/or be on scholarship). Often you can commute to a school that does have a program.
Obviously contingent on there being a school within a reasonable distance. If there is--completely doable. I looked a number of schools in exactly that scenerio back when I was applying, I doubt it's changed.
This is correct. I went to a junior college for two years and commuted to AFROTC at the nearest university. It makes the program a little more difficult to get involved with since you don't live on campus, but it is still doable.
One additional thing to think about: If you have the slightest thought that you might want to serve for 20 years and get a pension, consider enlisting in the national guard or reserve before college.
My information is a few years old, so this may no longer work, but in the past, if you were already in the reserves, your time in ROTC counted for retirement, and when you got your commission you already had four years in for pay purposes, so you had a significantly higher starting pay.
My information is a few years old, so this may no longer work, but in the past, if you were already in the reserves, your time in ROTC counted for retirement, and when you got your commission you already had four years in for pay purposes, so you had a significantly higher starting pay.
Joe
Time should count for pay, as in you'll be a Lt with 4 or more years when you get commissioned. But will not count for retirement directly--you won't be eligible to retire 16 years after you commission. They'll add up your active time and credit that, should be less than a year.
Still a good idea. Plus you'll make some cash while you're in school, always a good thing.
Time should count for pay, as in you'll be a Lt with 4 or more years when you get commissioned. But will not count for retirement directly--you won't be eligible to retire 16 years after you commission. They'll add up your active time and credit that, should be less than a year.
Still a good idea. Plus you'll make some cash while you're in school, always a good thing.
I agree with what you say.
What I guess I was actually getting at was if you stay in the reserve during college, and then go reserve after the initial commitment, then the college reserve years count towards your twenty years active/reserve for an age 60 reserve retirement.
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