. I respect all those who have taken this risk and have been deployed. My priority is to complete college and then I’ll be more than willing to be deployed.
Where did you get the idea that National Guard soldiers attending college and participating in ROTC would get deployed overseas? Clearly it is a possibility, but it seems really, really, remote. When is the last time this actually happened? What are the odds -- 2%?, 5%, 0.5%?, 0.1%
This reminds me of another extremely rare scenario: all Officers commissioned through USMA have an 8 year Mandatory Service Obligation, which is divided into a 5 year Active Duty Service Obligation, PLUS 3 years if Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). AROTC scholarship commissioned Officers are 4+4. IRR is not the same as "Army Reserves". IRR does not drill, receives no pay, and does not received benefits such as medical care. However, it IS possible for an officer who separates AD after 4 or 5 years, and is in IRR status, to be ordered back into Active Duty status. Yet nobody talks about that risk, or worries about it, b/c to my knowldege, it hasn't happened in decades. It would only happen if all the Ready Reserves were already called into Active Duty by Presidential Callup Authority ... when is that going to happen? And if our country is that deep in guano, the IRR soldiers would probably WANT to be part of the solution rather than watch from the sidelines.
So, while many things in life and the Army are possible, if you analyze a situation (in your case, being deployed to National Guard Active Duty while a student in college) and reach the conclusion that the possiblity is under 1%, do you really need to worry about it or make critical decisions around that remote possibility?
Incidentally, it is ALSO possible for ROTC contracted cadets at college to be called into Active Duty, and for cadets at the US Military Academy to be called into active duty. So many things are possible, but you can't worry or plan for things that are probably less than 1/100 chance of happening.