Army ROTC SMP

bdaMom said:
He joined Reserves in his senior year of high school, went to BCT that summer, started college in the fall and joined ROTC. The next summer he did AIT (it's called Split Option when you do BCT and AIT separate.) We were told he didn't technically have to do BCT, but he wanted to. He also received full Army pay during both his summers of training, which was used to cover what the scholarship didn't. If you're not on scholarship and are relying on the GI Bill and Kicker, you aren't eligible for them until you complete AIT, so for his freshman year all he had was $4,500/tuition assistance and drill pay. You could do BCT/AIT together and start college in January to have the GI Bill/Kicker from the start.
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what do yu mean he technically didn't have to do BCT? also i thought once you were contracted with ROTC and you go to BCT AND AIT you become non deployable as a SMP?
 
You become non-deployable once you contract through SMP. What she is saying is you do not have to attend BCT or AIT in order to contract SMP. However, without going to BCT and AIT, you will not be eligible for the GI Bill or GI Bill Kicker. If money is a huge factor, I would look at this closely. The GI Bill and Kicker is an extra couple hundred dollars per month.
 
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