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Originally Posted by pr_capone
True but he will gave the respect (assuming he is not an ass) of the enlisted men if he goes in as an enlisted man first, then after getting the degree he goes to OCS and gets his butter bar.
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that's true, in a line unit. But if he wants to go to law school he will probably be repaying his College loans with money from the army while he works in legal affairs or JAG. He can get college over with faster by waiting to join, if he can financially afford to wait.
as far as guards or reserve, I still say reserves, I do not know everything about the guards, but if he were my son with these same two choices I would tell him reserves. Pays the same, can deploy also, (actually more deployments in the guard, because they go to natural disasters too), but the resources are less. The only thing that would change my point of view is if the guards had better retirement. I don't know how their time / point growth rates compare to the reserves.