When someone says the military doesnt allow active duty infantry to attend college classes.?

Bull! No, you can't go to college full time while in the military,. but you can take classes and get college credits which could lead to a degree. .Colleges, such as University of maryland have extensive operations either on line, or actual, on many miliary bases. Want to take courses while in th military?? No one is stopping you.

Wow! Sgt., my son, friends and 2 brother taken classes while active duty! Sgt. earned a degree! none were full time students, Army came first, getting their education was not lacking! anyone who says you cant do it, didnt put forth the effort!

I am USMC infantry and was able to obtain 9 credits in a six month deployment to Iraq (online). It wasn't easy but it wasn't especially difficult.

It's not that you wouldn't be "allowed" to do it, it's that your duties will take precedence. A combat arms specialty in time of war isn't going to leave you many free hours in the day.

Bad info. They have colleges set up for active duty members. You have online classes, correspondance classes. When you are in the rear as infantry if you are not training you have a lot of down time. Most commands will let you leave to go to class. As for deployment, there are mail in classes where they give you all the material ahead of time and you just have to mail it in and they have online classes. Most infantry goes on patrols, but stay on the bases. The bases are all wired up. It is a command to command thing on how easy they will make it be for you, but you get a thing called tuition assistance while you are active duty. That pays 100% of the class cost. College classes actually help towards your promotions too. Military is a good way to get a free jump on your education. Yes, sometimes you might miss a semester, but I think it is worth it. Visit a base, go to the college office on base (they all have one), and ask them.

The needs of The Army, whatever branch, come first. But you can get a degree while on active duty. Most COs, and Senior NCOs encourage higher education. It makes the soldier and the service stronger. Have you considered ROTC, the Reserves, or the National Guard?

did u know, those troop in iraq (infantry) can actually study taking college course in there (distance learning) not the same as classroom, basically no actual teacher, just book and test, maybe some cd depend on course. And most of those course can be use for transfer.

You can attend College while on Active duty , so many Colleges are online now so you can take courses that way.. did anyone tell you about the Army Correspondence Courses? they also can earn you not only Promotion points for rank (E5-E6) But after maxing out and going to a College of your choice if they accept those Courses can add them break them up and you can earn your degree with that? In some MOS' the points are very high and it seems the only way to get promoted is with a College Degree. Good Luck to you Armywife & Soldier