2006-06-21 16:17:16 · 16 answers · asked by $*Cream*$ 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Go to college. Go in as an officer. You can get a scholarship or go to an academy and the military will still pay for your college, plus you get four years to train before you go in and you get more money when you do. You may still be elligible for the GI Bill benifits when you get out so the military can pay for your grad school.
2006-06-27 06:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by bulldog5667 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nice try, it isn't as easy as that.
It really depends upon what you want to do. Regardless of what you choose, ensure that you have a goal of where you want to be in four to five years.
If you are not sure of what you want to do with your life and want to take a year off, ensure that you don't fall into the trap of complacancy. You will always find people in the same place you are that will tell you that everything in life is great.
Look at the people around you that have been doing what you are doing for five or ten years more than what you are doing; is that where you want to be? If you get to the point where that answer is no, only action by you will make the difference.
Before I give you my opinion, I want to put out a disclaimer. The decision is your and yours alone, (unless you are married or have children then you have to take your significant other into coucil). You must make a decision and live with it.
If you know where you go in life (i.e. major) then go to school first, if you still want to join the military, there are ROTC programs at most major schools that you can apply to if your grades are good enough.
If you don't know what you want to do with your life or you want to experience life outside of what you have known, I would highly suggest that you join the military.
I joined the Marine Corps a little over fifteen years ago and I haven't regretted it a day. I have had the oportunity to meet so many different people from so many different walks of life that I feel that I am able to make wiser and more educated decisions than I could have if I had just limited myself to traditional schools of education.
You are asking for an "A" or "B" answer, life isn't always like that. If you want a greater chanse of success in life, you must go to college. However, if you combine a college degree with the expreiences gained in the military, you will be a great benafit not just to those around you but to society as a whole.
I have fifteen and a half years in the Marine Corps and a College degree and I thank the Corps for my degree and God for the Corps.
Think and pray on this decision. If you are not a religious person or wern't raised to be religious, change you will need it.
Semper Fi
2006-06-21 23:39:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you join the military first they will pay for your college. If you go to college and get a four year degree then you can join as an officer. I recommend this. Better pay. I think most branches have programs to help you pay off your student loans. Be sure when you join and you pick your job, pick one that isn't over crowded or getting a promotion will be tough. I recommend the airforce. The other branches you are gone a lot and if you plan on starting a family that will make it tough. All depends on what you go in for. Hope that helps
2006-06-21 23:32:27 · answer #3 · answered by lilbitch689 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd go to college first. You'll get a basic higher education, and have a better idea of what you truly want to do, and be more mature. Most higher level non-coms have degrees. (My own Drill instructor was finishing his Phd. in psychology.)
Plus, if you're serious about a career in the military, having a degree first, will give you more legitimacy. It's no shame, but many go into the service for the education benefits. (And for that reason only) Having a degree you got on your own, will give you a hell of a lot of respect going in.
Whether or not ya decide to serve afterwards, I'd go into a major you're interested in. If it's a field that can be used in the service, all the better. With poli-sci, or philosophy being possible exceptions, just about any degree will do. The BA degree itself is enough. Specialization usuall comes later. The Army I know has a program that will pay for %95 percent, plus full salary for an active duty soldier to attend postgrad schooling. (dunno the details, just that the program DOES exist.)
2006-06-22 03:38:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obtain your degree first - go to college - no question about it!. The military can / will prevent U obtaining a degree if they decide your not the calibre they want! Conversely, I suggest U also think long and hard about a military career! By the time you have your degree, the country will be under new management, and hopefully more resolutely led & the public more aquainted with its management.
2006-06-22 11:39:41 · answer #5 · answered by Hakit. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a parttime job and work your way through college.
Joining the military is putting your life in the hands of dangerous men.
As much a you need education it is pointless if you end up dead!
2006-06-22 04:13:30 · answer #6 · answered by James 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might want to join the military now. It may be your last chance to die for your country. Especially when the Democrats win the 2008 elections.
2006-06-22 00:21:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you go into the military first, they will pay for your college.
2006-06-21 23:25:51 · answer #8 · answered by jenn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say it's best to go to college and avoid the military. Now that Bush got us into this mess, better to go to college than end up dead.
2006-06-21 23:22:22 · answer #9 · answered by Michael H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive read what everyone has told you, yes the military will pay for it. But what good is it, if you don't come back from war, to use your GI bill??
Go to collage and give yourself a chance in life.
2006-06-22 03:30:31 · answer #10 · answered by lvn3814 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋