Marine Officer?

[thestumps]

as a 17 year old i had 2 choices: goto college with the rest of my friends, somehow figure out how to pay for it via loans, etc or become a Marine like i always wanted to as a kid. i decided on the latter and have no regrets. here is a little background of my military career:
- graduated boot camp MCRD San Diego, meritoriously promoted to PFC for being a Squad Leader
- Meritoriously promoted to Lance CPL for being honorman out of School of Infantry
- Two combat deployments to Iraq (2005, 2007)
- One combat deployment to Afghanistan (2008)
- In 4 yrs of service in the USMC my highest rank was SGT, and I was a Squad Leader of 16 devil- dogs.

I will tell you this though when you go Officer like you want to, even after you complete your service for 4 or however many years you decide to stay in you can be called back at ANY TIME the Corps needs you. That is a FACT look it up. So if you only want to do it because you think it will look good on a resume, etc I would think about it a little more. Oh and by the way in order to receive the title Captain you would have to be in at least 5 years or so is the average to pick- up that rank. Nothing is ever given, its earned. But the key thing is that at ANY time if the Marine Corps needs you they will call you and you are obligated to do it because you are and Officer, enlisted don't have to after they fulfill their time in the IRR.