Officer placement is weird (from my civilian perspective).
ROTS gets you in, then there’s OCS (I think?) for professionals? But you need to have something that’s relevant. Music won’t get you in, but engineering, some sciences, etc.
And some professions like M.D.s and J.D.s can get direct commissions.
It’s been a while since I had it explained so I probably messed a bunch of that up.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
It’s not that straight forward. Since he clearly didn’t do ROTC he will have to compete for an OCS slot, to commission. To get that he would need a very high GPA.
Now the Army does have many musicians but promotion is so slow and competitive E6 and E7s in the military have masters in music.