Before I start I'm from the UK so it might be different in the US. Anyway I looked on the army website and I found out a lot of information about what you can do and what you can progress onto, I'd suggest looking on the US army website for a while and looking through all the possible jobs they have to offer and which best suits you.

If you're wanting to make an actual career out of it, you're going to want to go to college first so that you go to OCS and go in as an officer.

You can go to college via ROTC and you won't have to pay a thing.
You'll just be required to serve 8 years if you want a 4 year scholarship, 4 years if you want a 3 year scholarship or a 2 year scholarship.

You'll also basically be apart of the Army Reserve until you graduate. You'll train monthly and spend your summers training.

Im a Junior as well and Im joining the Air Force. Have you taken the ASVAB yet? The Military puts you where you are needed. I dont know about the Army but in the Air Force you fill out a "Dream Sheet" of what you want to do and where you want to be stationed. But the ASVAB is obviously critical because it is required but it also qualifies you for the military and they use it to place you for your job.

4x4 wrote Im a Junior as well and Im joining the Air Force. Have you taken the ASVAB yet? The Military puts you where you are needed. I dont know about the Army but in the Air Force you fill out a "Dream Sheet" of what you want to do and where you want to be stationed. But the ASVAB is obviously critical because it is required but it also qualifies you for the military and they use it to place you for your job.

I was required to get 31 and I got a 45. I heard about ROTC but I didn't know what it exactly was

Logic09 wrote

4x4 wrote Im a Junior as well and Im joining the Air Force. Have you taken the ASVAB yet? The Military puts you where you are needed. I dont know about the Army but in the Air Force you fill out a "Dream Sheet" of what you want to do and where you want to be stationed. But the ASVAB is obviously critical because it is required but it also qualifies you for the military and they use it to place you for your job.

I was required to get 31 and I got a 45. I heard about ROTC but I didn't know what it exactly was

"The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is a college-based program for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces." I copied this from google. I dont want to give you false info, so I would go [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

It's not a bad thing but if you are going to do it you gotta go Marines.

The Few
The Proud
The Marines

Im in the infantry, its a pretty good go

Find all your information here [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] and if decide to join then thank you for serving this country!

me and my mate was thinking of joining the army, me going in as a mechanic