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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So ROTC will pay full freight at expensive private universities so long as there is an ROTC org on campus? [/quote]

Chair of the Joint Chief GEN Milley was Princeton ROTC.   [b]The Army also sponsors six statutory military colleges - they include VMI and the Citadel.  If you graduate one of them as Army ROTC you are guaranteed a commission, immediate branch school, a year of active duty and at your option an additional year,[/b] and by law these colleges are immune from having ROTC drawn down.  They are as entitled to a commission (and a job in uniform) upon graduation as any Service Academy graduate.  BIG caution: at some of them, HAZING.   
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Is the active duty obligation really only 1 year if you do Army ROTC at these "statutory military colleges"? If so, why? It's a 5 year active duty obligation after a service academy, and I thought it was also 5 years after doing ROTC at a "civilian" university like Princeton - correct? Why would it only be 1 year after VMI or The Citadel, if it's the same scholarship?[/quote]

You misunderstood.... the one year is a minimum guaranteed (assuming you want active duty).   Many ROTC grads want active duty and cannot get it.  [/quote]
Yes, I thought active duty was a MUST after a full four-year ROTC scholarship? Are you saying a lot of these ROTC scholarship recipients are just doing reserves when they graduate?[/quote]

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