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I will begin my studies at a medical school this summer. I have approached the Army National Guard and reserves about funding and obligations.
So far the Guard seems most promising--or so I think--I need your advice. Sometimes I feel like a sucker when I am listening to the recruiting pitch.
I have been told that if I join the Army National Guard I will be:
1) non-deployable during medical school and my residency.
2) that I will receive the STRAP stipend totaling $1319 for all 4 years of medical school and, if I enter a wartime specialty residency, STRAP for my years of residency.
3) that my total commitment, if I begin drilling right away, will be 8 years in the Guard. Which would mean that I would basically, following the logic of #1, be non-deployable the entire time.
4) that if I go to OBC I will also receive the GI Bill during med school.
5) that the guard is flexible about missing drill due to exam preparation.
6) that were I to stay in the Guard past the eight years I could only be deployed for 90 days "in country."
Please help with each of these--I am 33 and a nontraditional student with a spouse. I could really use the support while in school and residency--but at what cost?
Thanks a million!!!
So far the Guard seems most promising--or so I think--I need your advice. Sometimes I feel like a sucker when I am listening to the recruiting pitch.
I have been told that if I join the Army National Guard I will be:
1) non-deployable during medical school and my residency.
2) that I will receive the STRAP stipend totaling $1319 for all 4 years of medical school and, if I enter a wartime specialty residency, STRAP for my years of residency.
3) that my total commitment, if I begin drilling right away, will be 8 years in the Guard. Which would mean that I would basically, following the logic of #1, be non-deployable the entire time.
4) that if I go to OBC I will also receive the GI Bill during med school.
5) that the guard is flexible about missing drill due to exam preparation.
6) that were I to stay in the Guard past the eight years I could only be deployed for 90 days "in country."
Please help with each of these--I am 33 and a nontraditional student with a spouse. I could really use the support while in school and residency--but at what cost?
Thanks a million!!!