That's incomplete gouge. If you file for and get a VA rating and then go into the IRR, they will make you MEPS from scratch as well.STA-21 favors nukes almost exclusively, so plan for OCS.
I don't know how long you have been in, but one piece of advice is make sure you don't let your IRR time expire, if you do then medically you will be looked at as if any issues you had a new issues, if you are inside your IRR or affiliate with the reserves any medical issues you have been diagnosed with should go much smoother.
If no rating, then yes, as described.
Depends on the unit. The unit I was with encouraged such stupidity, and ended up losing a number of candidates who spent too much time on ROTC BS activities and not enough on their academics.Only class and some NROTC-specific meetings once every few weeks along with once a month Saturday 'military training' sessions that were usually sitting in a classroom or on the occasional field trip. Definitely no fundraising, didn't know that was a thing. I went to a military college though where much of the stuff mentioned was already done through the school so it would have been redundant to do with the unit. We didn't even get issued Navy uniforms much less wear them, except for summer cruises, and our midshipmen 'command structure' was at best semi-formal. Being a Marine-dominated unit probably helped with much of the focus on them, we were one of the few commanded by a Marine Colonel and usually commissioned more Marines than Navy.
The 10-15 hours a week just surprises me a little, seems like a lot more than I had heard about from my more normal ROTC grads.
Reasonable options, but any opportunity to preserve GI Bill benefits (e.g. NROTC or other scholarship, BDCP) is encouraged as it gives the option later of using GI Bill for graduate school.Use your GI Bill to get you through college and then apply for either BDCP or the direct OCS route.
NROTC is not a bad route but being that the GI Bill covers tuition and a decent living allowance, there’s not really a need to do NROTC.
Whatever route you do, use common sense - ie don’t do drugs, get in trouble, etc.
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