Originally Posted by rickair7777
ROTC (w/ scholarship) is a good deal, but a pilot slot is not guaranteed, and if you get stuck in helos, that will hamper your airline prospects.
Avoid ANY aviation "major" unless it is a bona-fide engineering degree.
If you want an airline career (I assume that's why you're on this board), get a real major, CFI, get a regional job, THEN find a fixed-wing ANG unit and sign up...while you do two years of military training, your airline seniority accrues in your absence. When you return, you upgrade to captain, and in a matter of months you can apply to a Major...with both the military and 121 tickets punched. Hard to go wrong.
That sounds like a nice plan, I'd love to get an ANG pilot slot. You have any idea what it takes? Say a guy joined up with the ANG but didn't get a pilot slot, would your plan still hold true?
As a side note, I don't believe the afrotc (at least at UND) will pay for any of your flight costs.