Army Reserve Officer Training Corp. (AROTC) is the way to go that way you get college paid for and afterwards you get to go in to the Army as a 2LT. Do that and you will be making $3503.00 a month out of college with no student loans and everything including food, home, and uniform will be paid in full so you will have $3500 a month to do what ever you want with.. that is $42K a year which is alot of money for a fresh out of college single man.
Yes you can go army reserve and college at the sane time. Reserve is mainly weekends and a day a week, you move around sometimes, but you can still do college. But you shouldn't be asking us, go talk to your local regiments recruiter.
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