Would your military obligations allow you enough time to attend college courses at night?
2007-07-13 15:56:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
It depends what job you have. If you choose infantry, you will be out in the field for 3 weeks at a time, or in Iraq, and the last thing on your mind will be classes.
If you choose to work in linguistics for example, you will likely have 9-5 hours and you can do classes at night. Plus, you learn a new language as part of your training. Pretty cool, huh?
2007-07-13 16:51:56 · answer #1 · answered by nazariusrudius 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could take college courses even in war time. Most military bases have an Internet connection these days and allow for correspondence courses to be done online.
When my ship was deployed post-9/11 (technically war time), we still had a college professor come on board for the entire deployment to conduct some college classes for the crew who paid for them. Granted, that was the Navy and not the Armies or Marine Corps...but the government doesn't want to hold back it's troops from getting an eduction. Quite the opposite...they encourage their people to get an education.
My base (a little dinky thing with two frigates, three cruisers, and a Coast Guard cutter assigned to it - now closed or pending closure later this year. I was at NS Pascagoula, in Mississippi) had a college office on it where you could go to sign up for correspondence courses to do at your leisure online, and even did SATs for people.
2007-07-13 16:06:05 · answer #2 · answered by theREALtruth.com 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that depends on several factors. The biggest factor is what kind of unit are you in. Are you in a unit that has a higo op tempo, or combat unit or are you in a support unit. This will play in to the second point. A lot of that depends on your chain of command, and depending on the unit type will determine the answer.Finally how dedicated are you, even if you chain of command allows you to go to school, you will still be expected to do your duty, and be to formation on time, and go on every FTX.
That said most leaders will try to help their soldier out. If worse comes to worse just say you want the promotion points.
2007-07-13 16:26:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would need the permission of your Commanding Officer. If you get that, you can actually attend classes during regular duty hours.
2007-07-13 16:18:19 · answer #4 · answered by open4one 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋