SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6482419 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>So I&#39;m currently active duty with 7 yrs of active duty service. I do not have a bachelors degree at this time but I want to commision as an officer in the army. What are all my different options here? 2020-11-09T12:54:55-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6482419

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>So I&#39;m currently active duty with 7 yrs of active duty service. I do not have a bachelors degree at this time but I want to commision as an officer in the army. What are all my different options here?

2020-11-09T12:54:55-05:00 2020-11-09T12:54:55-05:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 6482431

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You are behind the ball asking here. How far along are you with college? Are you ETSing any time soon?<br /><br />Green to Gold can get you there Active Duty if you can finish college in two years. <br /><br />ROTC can get you there if you get out, and start with enough college left, and then enter an ROTC program and get a commission that way. <br /><br />Just finish a degree however you can then try OCS with degree in hand. <br /><br />This all depends on where you are with your education and your service obligation.

2020-11-09T13:00:09-05:00 2020-11-09T13:00:09-05:00 MAJ Javier Rivera 6482527

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>There are 4 paths to get commissioned:<br />1. USMA<br />2. OCS<br />3. ROTC<br />4. Direct Commission<br /><br />Take your pick. I don’t want to be pessimistic but as you already know a college degree is a requirement for commissioning. Additionally, every now and then HRC publishes a MILPR with a maximum age for commissioning prior service; which I find kind of stupid. But it does. Now, whit the above mentioned list, there are 2 options that are No Go from the get-go, leaving you with only 2 other options. Then, where do you stand on their requirements?

2020-11-09T13:27:04-05:00 2020-11-09T13:27:04-05:00 CPT Lawrence Cable 6482667

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How close are you to a degree? If you are close, then wait for your degree and apply to OCS.<br />If you haven&#39;t started or are not very far along, you might consider applying to USMA/West Point. Up side is that it is about the best free education you can end with a network that will be there the rest of your life. The downside is the entry requirements are pretty stiff and it&#39;s competitive. <br />If someone has not mentioned it yet, if you can finish your degree in two years, the Army will pay you to go to school and commission on the Green to Gold program.<br />The last path is to ETS and attend college and go ROTC. If you chose that route, a couple of recommendations. Most ROTC programs will exempt prior service from the first two years of ROTC and let you join in the Junior year. I would also recommend enlisting in the Reserves or National Guard during your college years and do a Simultaneous Membership Program while you are in ROTC. Having been around the Guard, I will point out that most states offer additional educations benefits on top of all the GI Bill stuff. The advantage to either is that you get paid for Drill and Annual Training periods and you don&#39;t lose any TIS as long as you don&#39;t take a scholarship. You will already make more than maximum for LT&#39;s with no service as soon as you commission.

2020-11-09T14:13:37-05:00 2020-11-09T14:13:37-05:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 6483272

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>After I did my 8 years active enlisted, I got out and used the GI Bill at Texas Tech for my Bachelor’s. Plus in Texas they’ll wave 120 hours worth of cost for veterans, and you can pocket the GI Bill for rent and bills so you don’t have to take too many loans. Then I got my masters and did ROTC at the same time for my commission. They’re really no right or wrong way to do it because everyone’s path is different. If it’s what you want, just get it done.

2020-11-09T17:48:28-05:00 2020-11-09T17:48:28-05:00 LTC Jason Mackay 6483479

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>ETS and enroll in ROTC, Green to Gold AD option, OCS AD competitive , ETS then OCS, direct commission through AMEDD, become a Chaplain

2020-11-09T18:55:12-05:00 2020-11-09T18:55:12-05:00 LTC Eugene Chu 6484207

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What is your age? Do you have dependents? How much college credit do you have?<br />USMA has an age limit of 23 with no dependents. Others have mentioned ROTC Green-to-Gold, but being a cadet affects your finances depending on active duty or scholarship variations.

2020-11-09T23:47:47-05:00 2020-11-09T23:47:47-05:00 Cpl Gerald Tucker 6484239

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You better get busy buddy! The clock is running.

2020-11-10T00:07:24-05:00 2020-11-10T00:07:24-05:00 CWO3 Private RallyPoint Member 6485838

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>With caution and perseverance.

2020-11-10T12:25:37-05:00 2020-11-10T12:25:37-05:00 CPT Larry Hudson 6823217

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Education, education, education. If your scholastic test warrant you going to Officer Candidate School then that avenue is open. With the level of technology being used today, I would say that education is the most important avenue to becoming commissioned.

2021-03-14T16:24:52-04:00 2021-03-14T16:24:52-04:00 Sgt Dale Briggs 7353673

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My nephew is in OCS now in Benning. He did 4 years in The Marines, deployed with 1/1, got out and went to App State. Went Army because the Marines are tough to get back into once your out, promotions are slow. He was an 0311 E4 at EAS. but he listed his choices as Intelligence and of all things EOD, there’s a mistake right there imo, forgot the third. Without college no shot unless you fly helicopters I suppose. Oh, and the government paid him a nice chuck of change every month so he didn’t have to balance school with work, good deal.

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