I'm going to post this on here about my DS, even though it might not be quite as eventful, or what some might consider glamorous, as some of the graduates above, it is still a path ROTC cadets could take.
We live in the midwest and DS commissioned thru the ECP route from a Military Junior College. He got to attend Air Assault school at age 19 in Fort Benning.
At age 20 he is a 2nd LT in our states national guard in a multi-role bridge engineering unit. They came back from deployment in 2014. I believe that was their 4th or 5th deployment since 2000.
Like active duty fresh 2nd LT's he gets all the tedious duties to do. He is a platoon leader, the units state readiness officer, and a few other roles that i cannot remember. In the few months he has been drilling he has actually been in charge of quite a few different tasks. He will attend BOLC in our state also after he graduates. (2017)
While doing this he is attending big state U and finishing his degree in political science and has decided to pursue a career in law enforcement. This was not what he started out thinking when he started college or ROTC (he was wanting active duty but that did not work out for various reasons) but he adapted.
He is discovering that big state U is quite a culture shock from what he is used to but readily admitted that if he had went there as a freshman he would not have made it. He is also discovering that finding a part time job in a city that has 40,000 other students is not an easy task.
All this he has done and will do within 3 hours of where he grew up and all of tuition and room and board for all 4 yrs has been paid for by either scholarships or tuition assistance in return for his service.
Not that he does not necessarily want to travel or see different areas of the country or world, but he has the rest of his adult life to do that.
I wanted to throw his story out for those that might not want the active duty side or those that just do not get it. There are always other ways to serve our country or community. Also, serving in guard he gets a large variety of tasks as a lot of guard units or short handed and you basically do what needs to be done at anytime.
We live in the midwest and DS commissioned thru the ECP route from a Military Junior College. He got to attend Air Assault school at age 19 in Fort Benning.
At age 20 he is a 2nd LT in our states national guard in a multi-role bridge engineering unit. They came back from deployment in 2014. I believe that was their 4th or 5th deployment since 2000.
Like active duty fresh 2nd LT's he gets all the tedious duties to do. He is a platoon leader, the units state readiness officer, and a few other roles that i cannot remember. In the few months he has been drilling he has actually been in charge of quite a few different tasks. He will attend BOLC in our state also after he graduates. (2017)
While doing this he is attending big state U and finishing his degree in political science and has decided to pursue a career in law enforcement. This was not what he started out thinking when he started college or ROTC (he was wanting active duty but that did not work out for various reasons) but he adapted.
He is discovering that big state U is quite a culture shock from what he is used to but readily admitted that if he had went there as a freshman he would not have made it. He is also discovering that finding a part time job in a city that has 40,000 other students is not an easy task.
All this he has done and will do within 3 hours of where he grew up and all of tuition and room and board for all 4 yrs has been paid for by either scholarships or tuition assistance in return for his service.
Not that he does not necessarily want to travel or see different areas of the country or world, but he has the rest of his adult life to do that.
I wanted to throw his story out for those that might not want the active duty side or those that just do not get it. There are always other ways to serve our country or community. Also, serving in guard he gets a large variety of tasks as a lot of guard units or short handed and you basically do what needs to be done at anytime.