Is there any way of being employed part time in the military and recieving training in parachuting and firearms etc, whilst at an american university and studdying for a degree?
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March 13th, 2010 at 5:32 am
Yes, it’s called the reserve forces and the national guard. These are part-time positions, or ‘weekend warriors’. You commit once a weekend per month and several weeks in the summer after your initial training period. You can be activated for full-time work and deployment at any time and in the past one was rarely activated for duty. That’s not anywhere the case today, where you can definitely expect to be called into active duty for extended periods of time, often on multiple tours (i.e. you will be called to serve for a year, come back for 6 months only to be called to serve again; many reservists are on their 2nd or even 3rd tour by now). Hence, beware of recruiters trying to draw you in as there’s a severe drop in recruitment levels.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:32 am
I believe that you can be in the military and attending college (community, tech, or uni). If you are called to active duty, your college will put your studies "on hold," vs. dropping your courses or having you withdraw. Most colleges are pretty good at working with those in the military.
I would suggest talking with your targeted college and finding out their specific details though, vs. getting answers here.
Good luck.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:32 am
Actually, your best bet, in the US, it one of three things:
1) Attend an American university with an ROTC program. They’ll pay for your schooling, give you some basic military training, and you’ll be commissioned into the military as an officer when you graduate.
2) Attend a service academy, such as West Point, Annapolis, or the Air Force Academy. Needless to say, tuition is free and the education is excellent, but admissions is very difficult.
In either case, you won’t really be getting the full training until after you graduate and enter the military. In reality, you’d be a student as your main job, until after you graduate. You would have ROTC courses and training, but you wouldn’t really be doing any parachuting until after you graduated.
3) Another option is to join the National Guard, or the Reserves, now. You’d then train like a regular reserves member, and you can also attend school. The issue there is that you may be called to serve while you’re in the middle of a semester. Schools do have plans to help with that, should it happen, but still, it’s disruptive. This would give you the most immediate military training of the three options.