Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have experience with ROTC and how it dovetails with admission to highly selective schools? We can afford to pay for school but just wondering if ROTC would be good to explore for the leadership experiences, no debt and five years of guaranteed job out of school.
You are aware that this “guaranteed job” will require your kid to go wherever they tell him, including combat zones? Your kid won’t always be able to come “home” for thanksgiving and other special holidays. Your kid could get assigned to a base in Germany or Korea or Guam; your grandchild could be born and raised there, making it hard for you to visit often. It’s a lot more than just a “guaranteed job.”
You think most just out of college kids are going to have leave to travel home for Thanksgiving and “special holidays”? I wouldn’t want my child to produce grandchildren right out of college, either.
We live in an area with lots of military officers and while yes, there are some tough deployments, we also have friends who’ve moved from here to England, Belgium, Japan, Norway, DC (that’s the worst) and Germany. Not exactly hardship posts and they and their extended families get to see each other often. A
lso lots of retired military parents at little kids’ school in their 40s and 50s collecting military pension and working for contractors. It’s not a bad life. They usually get a year here or there to do (paid for) masters degrees while active duty too.
OP, my childhood friend’s husband did ROTC as an engineering student, became a pilot, and is now a base commander. FIL was orphaned as a kid and did ROTC at UVA to pay for college. Studied electrical engineering and was stationed in Florida testing missles during Vietnam.
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