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Calling all PTs and PT students who have some military PT knowledge. Also, I thought it would be best to put this in the Pre-PT section of this forum since I am still a undergrad student.
I am in the first semester of my third year, within a 6 year doctorate physical therapy program. During the middle of the semester I have decided I want to be a PT in the military, specifically active or reserve Army. I understand the Army's need for PT's are not high right now, mostly due to the Baylor program, honestly wish I thought about that option before committing to this 6 year program, but I decided to look into ROTC anyways. For the past couple of weeks I have been attending morning PT and they are getting me registered to attend courses for next semester. But recently, I have had some conflicting info from different recruiters and after doing some research I decided I need some outside help, thus why I came to this forum looking to get some other opinons and even guidance to what I should do.
After meeting with the gold bar recruiter on my campus, and an AMEDD recruiter, I was told that even though I am a junior it would be possible to finish ROTC since I have 3.5 years left and I have one summer free. The gold bar told me that he's 100% sure I can get an education delay to finish out my graduate years within the program and that I am promised to end up as an PT for the Army, the only thing not promised is I end up active or reserves. I then decided to go and talk to a reserve recruiter, just to gather more info and he told me that neither the education delay or me actually ending up as a PT could be promised. They AMEDD guys really didn't offer me much info and basically told me to do what my gold bar suggested.
So I am just wondering if what my gold bar recruiter said is true? should I continue ROTC or would it just be wasting my time since I don't want to be putting my education at risk or me becoming a PT at all at risk.
I am in the first semester of my third year, within a 6 year doctorate physical therapy program. During the middle of the semester I have decided I want to be a PT in the military, specifically active or reserve Army. I understand the Army's need for PT's are not high right now, mostly due to the Baylor program, honestly wish I thought about that option before committing to this 6 year program, but I decided to look into ROTC anyways. For the past couple of weeks I have been attending morning PT and they are getting me registered to attend courses for next semester. But recently, I have had some conflicting info from different recruiters and after doing some research I decided I need some outside help, thus why I came to this forum looking to get some other opinons and even guidance to what I should do.
After meeting with the gold bar recruiter on my campus, and an AMEDD recruiter, I was told that even though I am a junior it would be possible to finish ROTC since I have 3.5 years left and I have one summer free. The gold bar told me that he's 100% sure I can get an education delay to finish out my graduate years within the program and that I am promised to end up as an PT for the Army, the only thing not promised is I end up active or reserves. I then decided to go and talk to a reserve recruiter, just to gather more info and he told me that neither the education delay or me actually ending up as a PT could be promised. They AMEDD guys really didn't offer me much info and basically told me to do what my gold bar suggested.
So I am just wondering if what my gold bar recruiter said is true? should I continue ROTC or would it just be wasting my time since I don't want to be putting my education at risk or me becoming a PT at all at risk.