Bam-bo
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I have been on both sides of the fence on this subject, but I am not educated on the Navy or Air Force side of the officer world.
So let me start off by telling you a little bit about myself before I get into my questions. I am 23 years old and a LS3 in the Navy standing in active status. I am in my senior year of college, all have been through Navy T.A. I study computer science which I have a 3.5 GPA, I have earned two honor societies (One in general studies and the other in my technical field). Lastly, I have roughly 90 volunteered hours on my eval and a program manager as a 3rd class. (I was told that was good. I wouldn't know.)
My attentions were to just join the military and get my degree and be done, but it seems like something is wanting me to stay in. I have had a Air force officer recruiter talk to me while my time in community college. We even got to the point where I sat down with there commanding officer who also has a degree in computer science. Is it possible for me to go cross branches like that? My NCC says that it is not, if I wanted to go officer I would only be able to through the Navy. With that being said I have three officers at my command trying to encourage me either go STA-21 or OCS. One being a mustang LTJG and two CWO3s. I have never seen myself even joining the military but it seems like I am surrounded by people wanting me to make it a career. If I tried to go officer, I would want to be able to join as an information officer or an intelligence officer but I heard those are really hard to pick up. Is there anyway to see quotas of previous years of people being picked up? Is there any program to be picked up and go directly as a reserve officer? Also another thing to weigh in my opinion is I come from a incredibly poor family with a sick mother. This is my reason to go reserve so I can spend time with her.
Any information or input on this subject will be greatly appreciated. Especially, any previous officers or current ones. I do not know how officer life is at all. I came from a Seabee command where our only officers were our CO and XO which I never got to talk to or see much.
So let me start off by telling you a little bit about myself before I get into my questions. I am 23 years old and a LS3 in the Navy standing in active status. I am in my senior year of college, all have been through Navy T.A. I study computer science which I have a 3.5 GPA, I have earned two honor societies (One in general studies and the other in my technical field). Lastly, I have roughly 90 volunteered hours on my eval and a program manager as a 3rd class. (I was told that was good. I wouldn't know.)
My attentions were to just join the military and get my degree and be done, but it seems like something is wanting me to stay in. I have had a Air force officer recruiter talk to me while my time in community college. We even got to the point where I sat down with there commanding officer who also has a degree in computer science. Is it possible for me to go cross branches like that? My NCC says that it is not, if I wanted to go officer I would only be able to through the Navy. With that being said I have three officers at my command trying to encourage me either go STA-21 or OCS. One being a mustang LTJG and two CWO3s. I have never seen myself even joining the military but it seems like I am surrounded by people wanting me to make it a career. If I tried to go officer, I would want to be able to join as an information officer or an intelligence officer but I heard those are really hard to pick up. Is there anyway to see quotas of previous years of people being picked up? Is there any program to be picked up and go directly as a reserve officer? Also another thing to weigh in my opinion is I come from a incredibly poor family with a sick mother. This is my reason to go reserve so I can spend time with her.
Any information or input on this subject will be greatly appreciated. Especially, any previous officers or current ones. I do not know how officer life is at all. I came from a Seabee command where our only officers were our CO and XO which I never got to talk to or see much.