s42brown said:

Why do people insist on using that GMO term. The Army doesn't have GMOs for incoming residence if they don't match into their specialty. The Army gives you a civilian deferment.
They army may give you a civilian deferrment, but it's definitely not gauranteed. I was told by Col Raynes (who has since retired) that if I didn't match in to my field, I'd definitely get a civ defferement. However, once I rotated at some military hospitals I found out that the army rarely gave out civilian deferments in my specialty, even though several people had not matched in the past.
That said, I think that most people in the army who did not match into my specialty (within the army's gme system), probably wouldn't have a very good chance in the civilian world either. Perhaps if you were a competitive candidate for the civilian match, they'd be more likely to hand out a deferrment.