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also you dont need to have a complete degree.  I just graduated with a butterbar who has had his commission for the last 2 and a half years because he went to some military junior college in missouri before he tranfsered to a 4 year university.

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because it's the name of the military academy? why do they call boston boston?

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rip mek

Yeah OCS requires a degree. ROTC is training during college. Service academies all give a B.S. if I'm not mistaken. A lot of focus on engineering.

Sort of. I have a friend who's a criminal justice major. He's doing pretty well, and he was in AFRTOC, but they didn't accept him for the final part of ROTC (which is when you contract with the Air Force) because his GPA wasn't high enough. A ton of people are doing ROTC / joining the military in general these days because of the shitty economy. The Air Force mainly wants engineers right now. If you're not an engineering/science major then you have to have a very very high GPA to get in. He might still do OTS after graduating, I think they're a bit more lenient.

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Hurricane2k9 wrote:

Sort of. I have a friend who's a criminal justice major. He's doing pretty well, and he was in AFRTOC, but they didn't accept him for the final part of ROTC (which is when you contract with the Air Force) because his GPA wasn't high enough. A ton of people are doing ROTC / joining the military in general these days because of the shitty economy. The Air Force mainly wants engineers right now. If you're not an engineering/science major then you have to have a very very high GPA to get in. He might still do OTS after graduating, I think they're a bit more lenient.

Thanks

What about the service academies are those similar to what we got here?

Shocking wrote:

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

Sort of. I have a friend who's a criminal justice major. He's doing pretty well, and he was in AFRTOC, but they didn't accept him for the final part of ROTC (which is when you contract with the Air Force) because his GPA wasn't high enough. A ton of people are doing ROTC / joining the military in general these days because of the shitty economy. The Air Force mainly wants engineers right now. If you're not an engineering/science major then you have to have a very very high GPA to get in. He might still do OTS after graduating, I think they're a bit more lenient.

Thanks

What about the service academies are those similar to what we got here?

yes. But they arent big enough to cover the needs of the military.

Shocking wrote:

Jay wrote:

yes. But they arent big enough to cover the needs of the military.

ohh, alright that makes sense.

eleven bravo wrote:

my LT in iraq had his degree in tree science

what? lol

wiki west point and annapolis

that kinda pisses me off

still.  gi bill is something that should be earned through service, not as an incentive.

Shocking wrote:

Do you have to have a college degree to become an officer within the US military?

Why don't they just select candidates and train them for this post within the military instead of making it a requirement to have a random college degree? I don't see how one adds anything of value to your function as an officer. Wasted years that could be replaced by a school within the military to learn something actually valuable + you get younger officers.

That's how it's done over here anyway, in the UK too I believe. You get a degree while you're in officer school.

You need 2 A levels at the very least but you won't be considered in the current climate with anything less than a degree.