Out of Indiana. I heard that college students are exempt from being deployed. Just wandering how much truth this holds.
2007-02-21 14:04:08 · 14 answers · asked by Brandon M 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Well I can say that I have never heard of that. I was in the guard in Iowa and we were deployed twice and alot of our college students had to go. Sorry.
2007-02-21 14:07:41 · answer #1 · answered by avengerspec 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can be deployed. Anyone who tells you National Guardsmen college students are exempt is wrong, wrong, wrong!
I know someone who was in the Ohio National Guard going to college under their 100% paid tuition plan (this is NOT the GI Bill.) The Guard paid his semester tuition and then less than a month later called him up for Afghanistan.
2007-02-21 22:23:57 · answer #2 · answered by retired military wife 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
KIMBERLY is so very wrong, first of all.
You can be deployed, even though you're going to college. The only way that you can't is if you get a CONTRACT with the ROTC department at the school you're attending. I know first hand of college kids that got deployed. It is entirely possible.
2007-02-21 22:52:31 · answer #3 · answered by tcbcyg 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Umm..yea..I'm a member of the Kansas Army National Guard and was deployed to Iraq for a year while I was in college. If you're in ROTC and have signed a contract, then you don't have to go, but don't a bitc* and and follow through on you commitments.
2007-02-21 22:05:48 · answer #4 · answered by Arnold 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that the war is a little more important than college to the "feds", at least right now.
I hope they don't have to end up deploying you, though. Be safe, if you are!
2007-02-21 22:14:08 · answer #5 · answered by Jenn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm active duty, but yes you can get deployed still. Chances are more slim than mine, but any service member in any branch or standing always has the chance to get deployed if they are of an able condition.
2007-02-21 22:09:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are exempt from being drafted if your in college but when you join the National Guard you are agreeing to be deployed whenever they need you.
2007-02-21 22:14:52 · answer #7 · answered by chellebelle 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
after 2 years you can
2007-02-21 22:05:48 · answer #8 · answered by Evil Man 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would think so. That college exemption went out with Viet Nam.
2007-02-21 22:06:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-02-21 22:07:12 · answer #10 · answered by bullwinkle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋