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- Mar 16, 2017
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Hey everyone,
I've been bouncing back and forth between whether I should try to join the Navy in order to pay for my education. The things I have read on here, in addition to information I have gotten from one of the physician's I used to work for in the Navy, have been dissuading me. Despite all of this, a portion of me still wants to join. Besides the funding, I think that I think I miss certain aspects of being in the military (I am prior enlisted). Today is the first day that I thought of doing the minimum of 2 years and I was hoping to hear your opinions. I have not touched my post 911 gi bill and I am a year out from having my bachelors. My proposed plan is this; use 2yrs of my post 911 gi bill at a public institution and use the last year as Montgomery while being a part of an HPSP program for the remaining two years. One of my fears with this plan is that I could end up with two years without a residency and I am unsure if this would make it more difficult for me to find a residency on the civilian side. If this isn't valid, I guess there is also a fear that I might end up hating the fact that I delayed my medical education by two years because I had a rose tinted view of my service and of the physicians I worked with. Another fear is getting pushed into a residency I am not 100% behind. I am unsure of whether the second fear is founded, as I do not know if the Navy can really force you to pick one (they were able to decide a lot of other things from my experience). Has anyone done anything like this?
I've been bouncing back and forth between whether I should try to join the Navy in order to pay for my education. The things I have read on here, in addition to information I have gotten from one of the physician's I used to work for in the Navy, have been dissuading me. Despite all of this, a portion of me still wants to join. Besides the funding, I think that I think I miss certain aspects of being in the military (I am prior enlisted). Today is the first day that I thought of doing the minimum of 2 years and I was hoping to hear your opinions. I have not touched my post 911 gi bill and I am a year out from having my bachelors. My proposed plan is this; use 2yrs of my post 911 gi bill at a public institution and use the last year as Montgomery while being a part of an HPSP program for the remaining two years. One of my fears with this plan is that I could end up with two years without a residency and I am unsure if this would make it more difficult for me to find a residency on the civilian side. If this isn't valid, I guess there is also a fear that I might end up hating the fact that I delayed my medical education by two years because I had a rose tinted view of my service and of the physicians I worked with. Another fear is getting pushed into a residency I am not 100% behind. I am unsure of whether the second fear is founded, as I do not know if the Navy can really force you to pick one (they were able to decide a lot of other things from my experience). Has anyone done anything like this?