The last thing I wanted to do was ask this..

[sgtbear111]

Your degree meets one of the many requirements for a comission. You didn't mention Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, or Coast Guard. The services have different missions, thus different availability for officer billets.

Being a commissoned officer is accepting responsibility and accountability for the careers and lives of the enlisted people serving under your command. It is a position of trust, a sacred trust when you lead troops in combat. There are high expectations placed upon you. Your CO will expect much. The senior NCO's will expect more. The NCO's will teach you how to succeed, you must be willing to listen. It is not easy. Your time is totally theirs. It isn't glamorous, you will work longer hours. You are not task oriented. You are a leader, you are concept and mission oriented. You will make decisons conceriing missions, people, and multi-million dollar equipment while in your twenties, as a J.O. The civilian corporate world reserves the same level of critical decisions for senior execs in their 50's and 60's. Military officers are recruited by the corporate world for their experience in exercise of responsibility, and decision making. It can be very rewarding.

You will form life-long bonds with officers and enlisted people you have served with. You will hear words in OCS like loyalty, honor, integrity, bravery, duty.....you wil later see them placed into action in many settings. You will know pain, loss, comradeship, trust, sorrow, humility, compassion, sacrifice..... and you will carry your experience with those intangible things that still bring tears to the eyes of most of us old vet's. Watch when the colors pass, you hear rifle volleys and taps coming from a cemetary, or The Star Spangled Banner is played at an event. Those serving and the vets are easy to spot.

High performance, good people, and the pay isn't that great. It's a lot like law enforcement. Good luck.

[Aota]

Let me assure you Drew, that your area of discipline in college is of very little interest to the Army unless you are requesting a specialized branch such as Finance or JAG.

They just want people who are willing to lead, and be held accountable "for everything their troops do or fail to do". The rest of the stuff they'll teach you.

[Fatalo86]

Dude you are so lucky that they will be calling you within a week. My BI told me it takes up to eight weeks to recieve the results of the poly. I have my poly on Oct. 17.

[Roger Dat]

:eek: 8 weeks huh! I would go nuts, My polygrpaher read and gave me my results within 10 minutes of the conclusion of my poly. Hang in there

[drewsy64]

Man, you guys are awesome. Thanks to all the replied with the OCS and military advice. I'm considering the Army and Navy as the branches I'd be most interested in (no offense to the others, just my opinion). I'm going to wait out the process here, and if I'm lucky, I'll get hired. If not, then I'm going to begin preperation for the military.

My BI just left my home a few minutes ago, and the interview went great. He told me that I should 'breeze through' the rest of the process. While I know it's still an uphill battle, I'm very excited and encouraged by this. The poly wasn't bad, and I only had to go through the questions once. He told me that he felt I had been honest with him, and he told me I passed, and he recommended me to continue. My oral board is set for the 11th of October, and I know that this will be tough. They will grill me about my past, and the only thing I can do is tell them the truth, and let the chips fall. If I get through it and pass, I'll have the Conditional offer, and then the Med/Psych. The Academy starts in mid-December and will have around 75 Recruits from what the BI said were 5000 applicants.

Thanks again to all who have replied, and to those of you waiting and processing, good luck to you all.

Drewsy