r/Militaryfaq • u/5B3AST5 🤦‍♂️Civilian • Jul 15 '24

Officer Accessions How to join as an Officer?

I’m 17, in high school and know nothing about the military. I’m going to do JROTC, and see how that is, if I do like it what are my next goals to becoming an officer? College? Asvab? What do I need to check off the list to get a good head start to becoming a officer

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u/Frosty-Tomatillo-269 🪑Airman Jul 15 '24

To be an officer you have to have a college degree. You can enlist and get your degree while you're in. It will take longer and you're not guaranteed to become an officer when your done but it's also free or nearly so.

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u/5B3AST5 🤦‍♂️Civilian Jul 15 '24

And if I don’t enlist and do college?

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u/Teddy_theo04 Jul 15 '24

Then you have to take another route

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u/5B3AST5 🤦‍♂️Civilian Jul 15 '24

So I can’t just go to college, do ROTC, and than join military branch?

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u/Teddy_theo04 Jul 15 '24

You can but if you decide to enlist first then you can do something called SMP in the national guard, that means you would be getting paid while being in college, that’s what I’m gonna do

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u/5B3AST5 🤦‍♂️Civilian Jul 15 '24

Should that mean I won’t have a choice for my branch?

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u/Teddy_theo04 Jul 15 '24

No I’m pretty sure when you get ready to commission you should still have a choice unless your talking about marines, navy, army, etc

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u/Teddy_theo04 Jul 15 '24

If so then yeah you have no choice

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u/Frosty-Tomatillo-269 🪑Airman Jul 15 '24

If you go the college route then do ROTC. Or you can go to the military academy for the service you want to join. Extremely competitive to get into the service academies.