Quote Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
Well, if you would like to make the military a career, then I guess going through Anapolis or West Point is pretty much as good as it gets. You won't get the experience of being a troop, but I think that 4 years of military college makes up for that...


I'm sure you guys remember me tossing the ball around on taking a commission in the Corps. Maybe I'll still hit up the army for a reserve commission since the Corps doen't have such a thing untl after you do 6 years active as an officer...

Redleg, you went OCS?
ROTC - after a stint in the National Guard as a 13E. 2 years as a 13E then I signed up for ROTC and entered the SMP program.

However I have served with about every type of officer that there is. Personally I think those that were enlisted for 2-4 years, get out to go to college and go thru ROTC are the better officers overall. So my line of thinking is not that far from yours in that regard. However I would say most of the OCS commissioned officers have a better relationship with the soldiers then others on the average.