Here's a suggestion - why don't you enlist under another MOS? Then when you're done with college or whatever, you can see if you need to take the ASVAB over to become an 31B. Also if you enlist in ROTC at an university or college, you will be considered a full time student and can serve in the STP. And if I believe correctly, you cannot be pulled out, depending on your MOS and whether or not your unit absolutely needs you. Correct me if I'm wrong, recruiters?
The ARNG does have the new ACU. The units here received them in September 2005, because they were shipped out then. My brother whose active duty Army received his in November (as an 88M, he had to drive and pick them up for the company).
Now, 60 college credits ... I can take up to 30 a semester at my local community college. If you enlist with the Guard, they can pay 100% of your tutition (grant it, if it doesn't go over a certain amount).
You can go full-time ARNG, meaning that's where you go to work, day in and day out. I heard it's harder to get that, but I don't think it's impossible. But don't count the Guard out because you don't have money for college and "you might get deployed somewhere" ... something tells me ... a college degree isn't going to stop IEDs, VEDs or the enemy from trying to ambush you.
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Originally Posted by JenH
