[Bunny]

Point #1: If you “Go Guard” plan to stay there. Don’t even believe any of this crap about, if you ever want to go active, it’s a piece of cake, because it not. I have a friend who ass is stuck in the Guard for another 2 years. He is an awesome guy and wanted to go Special Forces. But since the Guard is hurting for people (especially officers) they wrote to Jump School and Ranger School informing them that he had “changed his mind” and “realizes he can be more useful in the Guard”. He was devastated. So I would say, stay away from the guard if you’re a hard charger. If you have big plans, go active.

Point #2: You are obviously almost 18. You think you’ll just enlist and when your ready, start going to college, wrong. They promise a lot of crap, and truth is you’ll be way to busy to do college. They will either ship you off, or activate you (and forget that college online crap). BTW, most people in the green to gold program are SFC’s with impeccable service records. So . . . if you want to be an officer, do it FIRST.

Point #3: AROTC is an excellent way to get through college AND become and officer. Basically there is no better way. You knock down two birds with one stone. Hold off on the Guard (they will still be there in a couple months) and WAIT for your scholarship notice. If you get it, don’t let it pass you by.