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National Guard, son.
Hello. Hope y'all are well. This question is aimed for experienced personelles {Don't want to leave more confused than I am now}:
Well I want to enlist in the National Guard; however, I would like to fist go to college(perhaps a paramedic or flight school). How do I go about this? Would I enlist in the Guard first then enroll in college? Or vise versa? And will the Guard help pay my tuition? -- I inderstand I can do these two things at once I just don't know what steps to take to get where I want to be.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Hope to hear form y'all soon. Thanks for your time, God bless.
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The National Guard are Generally considered to be weekend warriors just like the Army Reserve. The difference is that the Guard are not part of the U. S. Military. They are part of the State they live in or the Guard unit is Headquartered in and the Commander in Chief is the Governor not the President. The Guard can be federalized and used to augment the U.S. Military on orders of the President.
In general after basic and advance training a guardsmen returns to his/her home town and once each month reports to the armory for training. Two weeks each year the unit goes off someplace for further training. Unless called up by the Governor for assistance in some natural disaster or civil unrest, or by the President to augment the U.S. Military this is all that is required of the Guardsmen.
As for schooling. In general the guard will in return for your service provide different types of College assistance. In my state, my son who was both an Army reservist before transferring to the Guard, received 50% off his college tuition, books, labs and all other fees at any State school in return for his service. He received these benefits while he was actively enlisted in the guard and is still receiving these benefits know that he has completed his service. Because he was also in the Army reserve he was also eligible for benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill.
To receive benefits for college you need to be in the Guard or completed your 8 years of service to the guard. Each state offers different benefits so I would suggest you contact a guard recruiter and find out for yourself or google your state national guard.
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when I went to basic back in 2005, we had a huge amount of national guard guys pushed through with us. of them, about a quarter were college dudes. most of them had already completed their first year of college, then spent the summer between freshman and sophmore year in basic. its an interesting program, but holy shit it was retarded dealing with all of the high schoolers that came through with them. I don't know the time period set for you guys, but active duty gets 100% GI bill/ tuition repayment at three years time in service. I'd imagine its similar for the national guard. have fun with the hand-me-down equipment.
-Gunner
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