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7/1/2025, 8:21:14 PM
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Some services offer student loan repayment, but it’s less common now and usually doesn’t cover everything.
However, the military will cover your whole education if you serve before you attend college. Tuition assistance, GI Bill, etc. If you want to go to college and have even an inkling you want to join the military, I’d just enlist Air Force immediately in like finance or something and do college after. I always feel bad for those dudes with $80k in student loans who just end up enlisting anyways after graduation (there’s a lot of them in the military).
There are ROTC scholarships to get your education covered before serving, but they kinda suck compared to the GI Bill. Also, not everyone gets them. It’s weird. I’ve met O-4s that are still paying back student loans. It’s crazy.
Honestly, I think if you’re deadset on the officer path, then the best route is
8 year enlistment > get out (or guard/reserve for tuition assistance) > ROTC + GI Bill > Commission > 12 years officer > Retire O-3 or O-4
But only if you have a crystal ball and can see the future and know you’re doing 20. Officers with 6+ years of enlisted TIS are fucking untouchable. They hover above the officer fuck-fuck games. They can retire without having to make O-5 or even O-4 potentially. They can shit on the boss’s desk and take a nap in his chair and be fine. You skip all the bullshit of the senior ranks on both the E and O side.
Some services offer student loan repayment, but it’s less common now and usually doesn’t cover everything.
However, the military will cover your whole education if you serve before you attend college. Tuition assistance, GI Bill, etc. If you want to go to college and have even an inkling you want to join the military, I’d just enlist Air Force immediately in like finance or something and do college after. I always feel bad for those dudes with $80k in student loans who just end up enlisting anyways after graduation (there’s a lot of them in the military).
There are ROTC scholarships to get your education covered before serving, but they kinda suck compared to the GI Bill. Also, not everyone gets them. It’s weird. I’ve met O-4s that are still paying back student loans. It’s crazy.
Honestly, I think if you’re deadset on the officer path, then the best route is
8 year enlistment > get out (or guard/reserve for tuition assistance) > ROTC + GI Bill > Commission > 12 years officer > Retire O-3 or O-4
But only if you have a crystal ball and can see the future and know you’re doing 20. Officers with 6+ years of enlisted TIS are fucking untouchable. They hover above the officer fuck-fuck games. They can retire without having to make O-5 or even O-4 potentially. They can shit on the boss’s desk and take a nap in his chair and be fine. You skip all the bullshit of the senior ranks on both the E and O side.
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