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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Military retiree family.  I'd prefer to pay for college and not have my kids owe anything and go in as officers.  Its a lot during college.[/quote]

Yeah, if you are against ROTC and military commitments during college (service academies, VMI, Citadel, A&M, etc) then your kid is highly unlikely to become a military officer

Unless your kid does law school or med school, there is only one other path to becoming an officer, OTS,  and the selection odds for that is highly competitive.

You can't just walk in to a recruiter and sign up as an officer[/quote]

Yes, you can with a college degree.  Most don’t do rotc or a service academy.  I don’t want my kid to owe time.  That’s what we save and live under our means.  Military life is hard enough.  Let me guess you never lived it.  [/quote]

That is just untrue.  Ask any person who has become an officer or lived a military officer's life.

Most officers go through the sevice academies and ROTC.

You cannot just sign up and go straight to being an officer, without ROTC, service academies, or OTS, unless your degree is in very specific programs based on the needs of the service.

You can sign up with a 4 year degree and become an enlisted person.

But you cannot just walk in and sign up as an officer.

You have to qualify for an OTS spot and that carries an active duty service commitment,  just like ROTC and and academies.  And if you don't make it through OTS, then you spend your military commitment as an enlisted person.

Even if you are enlisted with a 4 year degree, you absolutely cannot just become an officer without applying for, being selected for, and completing OTS.

Either you are woefully misinformed, or you are not writing clearly.

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