ARMY Reserve - College Questions

[Avarice-ness]

If somebody goes into the Army Reserves and then takes ROTC in college while they are already in the Army and/or still in the reserves, do they still get the automatic officer rank and benefits, or do they still have to work their way through the ladder?
Which would be the easiest course; Army then free college, or the harder and more rewarding direction, college and then more money in the Army?

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LOL-ASKTHERECRUITER.

There's really no working your way up the ladder for an officer, it's not like you go through being E-something to E-something for 10 years and then get promoted to Officer, college alone tends to help with the whole officer thing. Most of my husbands friends at the basic training graduation were starting OCS the next monday, so yeah other than OCS and becoming an officer entirely there really is no working up the ranks.

You do realize though that pay is based off rank, if there's a 2ndLt and another 2ndLt and one went to college before the army, and one went to college in the army, their pay-grade is still the same because their rank is the same. Army.com - Military Pay Rates I do believe though, that the pay is much different for reserves, somewhere on the site there should be a pay-chart for reserves.

Also, you do NOT get AUTOMATIC officer rank and benefits, you have to go through OCS, you don't just go to basic and become an officer right off the spot, and yes, OCS (from what I heard) is NOT only a mental thing, but a physical thing. You don't pass OCS, it won't matter what degree's you have.

Applicants applying for U.S. Army Reserve OCS will serve in a U.S. Army Reserve unit for a period of six years.

I don't know if your enlistment time will effect your choices, but -a lot- can happen in 6 years.

Ask this on army.com/forums or something, they're pretty helpful there about everything. I don't know to much about reseveres because I've only been around active duty people for the past 10 years, but there are a good number of resevers people there.

Normally I'm helpful, but it's almost 9am and I'm to tired to call my job hating brother-in-law AKA my husbands recruiter.