I had talked to a recruiter before, and he had mentioned something about joining as an officer if you had college time.

I'm considering joining the army now, but I'd like to go in above sea level, so to speak.


I'll edit in more later.....

you need a college degree.

you can go to ROTC while your in college and its like an extra class and they pay for you college or you can go officer candidate school after you get your degree. but you need a 4 year degree to be an officer whichever method you take.

Damn, I thought it was 2...

Come to Australia and it's none. You need to have finished high school though.

If you are prior enlisted, check out the Army's Green to Gold program. If you are considering going to college straight from high school, then contact your prospective college's ROTC program. If you do not want to attend college, then consider the OCS (Officer Candidate School) for enlisted soldiers, which your recruiter will certainly push.

you have to have a college degree to go to OCS.

In the Corps, if you get accepted to MECEP, which sounds like the same thing, you'll be given an E5 salary while you earn a degree. I think they'll plan it out for you so you earn one in the shortest amount of time possible.

Of course though, MECEP is really competitive. And you have to be a tool to be the type of person they'll accept.

Of course though, MECEP is really competitive. And you have to be a tool to be the type of person they'll accept.

Yeah, sounds like the Army OCS program. And maybe you do indeed need a 2 year degree; not 100% sure. A friend of mine who's a sergeant tried to make it sound like it was based on the amount of college credits. Dunno.

You need 60 college credits recognized by the Army to go to OCS. You can enlist with an OCS contract. You will go to OCS after basic. Upon graduation from OCS, you will then finish up your college degree over a two year time period (tuition paid, e5 BAH) and then be commissoned as an O1.

well dude its called ocs officer candidate school or plc platoon leaders course, thats all good and shit the problem is that I am aware of you have to sign for a minimum of 10 years, now the benefits are that you are GUARANTEED at least captain after a certain period of time of being there, now, It all depends on what you want to be within the military, if you want to be a pencil pusher, then competition for those slots within the officer candidates wont be so bad, If you wanna go 03 or infantry competition is going to be steeper. If you do go 03 a lot of your enlisted marines under you are going to give you a lot of shit when you first arrive, because you will not be a mustang, which means you are an officer that was prior enlisted, and god knows that I dont give a fuck about rank, I do not listen to second lts, it can really get you killed. So look more into it man.