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Originally Posted by sir_krahn
Well I decided that I don't want to go to college after high school. So what do I do? And also what kinds of degrees do most officers get? Is there like a special type of college that soldiers traing to be officers can go to?
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From your questions, I think you have your work cut out for you to get this sorted out. The "special type of college" would be a military academy, not only West Point, USNA, the Air Force Academy, etc., but also places like VMI, the Citadel, etc. However, one can attend VMI for example with no military obligation whatsoever and you can major in anything.
Officers can and do major in about anything, with perhaps engineering degrees being prominent at the U.S. military academies, but you can major in chemistry, history, math, etc. Your officer training will be separate from you college major. Your college coursework will have nothing to do with learning to be an officer (save ROTC courses).
A common path is to attend college, take ROTC, attend things like Platoon Leaders Course (PLC) in 2 summers, graduate, and get commissioned. You can do this while being a reservist, subject to all that entails. Read the sites Vulture6 noted carefully - he is the expert here and I learned nearly all I pretend to know from him.
Anyway, if you enlist after high school, you will go to boot camp in whichever service and serve as an enlisted man for a good long while (barring attending college as a reservist or some other routes). There could be an exception somewhere, but as V6 says, being an officer means a college degree, BUT a college degree does NOT mean you're an officer.