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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't do ROTC and you don't attend one of the military academies, when you graduate college, you have to attend Officer Training School. Takes more time. ROTC... as soon as you graduate, you have a job. Then you either remain for required number of years, or you stay in for full career.[/quote]

ROTC skips OTS.  That's really the biggest difference, assuming that paying for college isn't a motivation.  [/quote]

Thank you both.

Google says Officer Training School is 9 to 17 weeks. Are you paid for OTS? How do some take 1/2 the time (9 weeks) vs. 17?

Does this mean the ROTC friend is merely 9 to 17 weeks "ahead" of my son after college -- or are there other things I'm missing?

Is everything the ROTC friend did from freshman year to senior year akin to the OTS -- or was this past summer, the ROTC summer program essentially the OTS?[/quote]

After graduating from ROTC or an Academy, each service has a certain amount of billets they have to fill.  For example, navy has pilot, nfo, submariner, or surface for the most part.  ROTC and Academy grads get the first pick on billets and duty stations, OTC gets the rest.  ROTC training is much more in depth than OTC training.  OTC grads play a bit of catch up when first joining the fleet, but everything quickly evens out. I have a friend that went through OTC in order to get the GI Bill money for grad school.  Everyone has their own reasons.[/quote]

Getting tuition (for most people) is the big bonus of ROTC over OTS later, and having a better pick of billets. I'm Air Force and it's much easier to become a pilot, for example, though the Academy or ROTC. [/quote]

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