<p>Thanks for the informative reply NROTCgrad.</p>
<p>In that case, I’ll eliminate “graduate school studies during service” as a plus. However, I’m still very much considering joining the military even if I don’t do much if at all engineering work. I would only be reluctant to join the military if it would ruin any chances of getting into the Biomedical Engineering industry but as of yet, I don’t see any reason for that to happen.</p>
<p>Also, you mentioned that going the ROTC route gives me little chance to negotiate my assignment but going the ROTC route would give me a better chance of getting into an officer position as I hear that getting into Officer Candidate (or Training in the Case of the Air Force) School is extremely tough. Specifically, I’m most interested in AFROTC (Partly because they have a fancy website haha) then NROTC. My university does not have detachments for either one but it does have Army ROTC. However, it partners with two different crosstown universities in the region that have AFROTC and NROTC but to participate, I’d have to visit them to attend classes and I’m not sure I’d be willing to do so unless the training was on a Friday or Weekend. Those two crosstown universities are far from being cross the town as they are 3 hours away by train. </p>
<p>On the other hand, OCS or OTS lets me maintain a more regular college lifestyle and gives me more flexibility to what branch I choose though it is much tougher to get into especially for Air Force OTS.</p>
<p>Do you know when the once a week classes take place?</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Civil Engineering in the military is just a glorified term for construction workers (much akin to the term sanitation engineer to refer to the garbage man as some point out. Is this really the case?</p>
<p>Also, if I do join the military, I intend to get a graduate degree in Biomedical Engineering after wards with the intent of entering the Biomedical Engineering industry in the field of prosthetics which could surely involved dealing with people such as veterans. I’d be really happy if I could help develop prosthetics to help out veterans as well as others who are in need of one for what ever reason.</p>