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I'm interested in becoming a JAG and unfortunately could not participate in ROTC during my undergrad years, but I will be going on to law school which allows for Army ROTC to be done in conjunction with the law program. I guess I'm wondering if people think this would make sense to do during law school and if it is a feasible endeavor on top of 1L year of law school.
 
I don't know about the Army, but the Marine Corps has a PLC Law program. The Marines are different than all other branches because all officers are line officers and are trained as infantry platoon leaders. Army ROTC trains you to be a line officer. I don't know why you would want to be an Army line officer after law school, but that is up to you. You could go Army JAG without doing ROTC. Same with Navy and Air Force JAG. No need to do ROTC.
 
AROTC-dad said:
You may be better off completing law school and then commissioning as an Army JAG officer directly (Direct Commission Course)

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Second this recommendation. The purpose of Army ROTC is to produce line officers, not JAG officers. So you would spend a lot of time training for things that you won't do as a JAG. And I don't think you would be eligible for a scholarship, so there would be no point I can see unless you really want to be a line officer. But if that's so, then why law school now?? Seek a direct commission to JAG straight from law school.
 
A according to content in links published by ROTC Consulting: (Search ROTC CONSULTING site for "law-school-and-rotc-lawyer).
"To my surprise, I discovered that Army ROTC scholarships are available to many graduate students, including law students. Army ROTC graduate school scholarships only cover the last two years of law school, but even if I had to pay for my first year of law school by myself, this scholarship could still minimize the amount of student loans I borrowed.
Cost to attend premier law or med schools (Ex. Harvard Law at $107,350.00 is daunting. If you could get like 150,000.00 of that for tuition/ fees covered by a ROTC scholarship and plan to serve anyway, it may be worth a look.
 
Herman_Snerd said:
A according to content in links published by ROTC Consulting: (Search ROTC CONSULTING site for "law-school-and-rotc-lawyer).
"To my surprise, I discovered that Army ROTC scholarships are available to many graduate students, including law students. Army ROTC graduate school scholarships only cover the last two years of law school, but even if I had to pay for my first year of law school by myself, this scholarship could still minimize the amount of student loans I borrowed.
Cost to attend premier law or med schools (Ex. Harvard Law at $107,350.00 is daunting. If you could get like 150,000.00 of that for tuition/ fees covered by a ROTC scholarship and plan to serve anyway, it may be worth a look.
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I didn't know that, and I concede it's interesting, but I have to wonder how often it happens and what the odds are. If I were in charge of giving out ROTC scholarships, I'd have to really pause and consider the value of giving a scholarship for law school (even if only two years) when the Army has no trouble recruiting lawyers straight from law school without giving them scholarships. IOW, where is the "value add" for the Army in doing this? What incentive is there for a PMS to give one of these out when his job isn't to produce JAG officers?
 
tjust2 said:
I'm interested in becoming a JAG and unfortunately could not participate in ROTC during my undergrad years, but I will be going on to law school which allows for Army ROTC to be done in conjunction with the law program. I guess I'm wondering if people think this would make sense to do during law school and if it is a feasible endeavor on top of 1L year of law school.
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I have met a few Army JAGs who did ROTC during law school. They were very busy, but a great way to learn how to be a superstar in time management. If you do not need a job during law school, then ROTC is doable. However, I always caution ROTC cadets who endeavor to branch into the JAGC that you must still apply to the JAG Corps and if you are not selected (it is highly competitive), then you will be required to go into your basic branch (i.e. you may be branched Air Defense Artillery (ADA) and be denied from branching into the JAGC, then you would go to ADA basic and serve your commitment in that branch).
I don’t mean to scare you out of
tjust2 said:
I'm interested in becoming a JAG and unfortunately could not participate in ROTC during my undergrad years, but I will be going on to law school which allows for Army ROTC to be done in conjunction with the law program. I guess I'm wondering if people think this would make sense to do during law school and if it is a feasible endeavor on top of 1L year of law school.
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Tropic Justice said:
I have met a few Army JAGs who did ROTC during law school. They were very busy, but a great way to learn how to be a superstar in time management. If you do not need a job during law school, then ROTC is doable. However, I always caution ROTC cadets who endeavor to branch into the JAGC that you must still apply to the JAG Corps and if you are not selected (it is highly competitive), then you will be required to go into your basic branch (i.e. you may be branched Air Defense Artillery (ADA) and be denied from branching into the JAGC, then you would go to ADA basic and serve your commitment in that branch).
I don’t mean to scare you out of it
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There's no need to apologize, I want the truth and to get as much info as possible. I appreciate the honesty
 
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