Best military branch and job for a 17 year old?

Kid, you're totally clueless! If you're going to one of the military academies, then you don't/won't need to do ROTC. Of course, if you're a junior in HS and don't know that much about the military academies, then maybe you will have to do ROTC. If you're going to do ROTC, then the only time you would go to bootcamp is if you're enlisting in the Reserves to serve while you're in college. Forget all this Special Ops and "God Bless the USA" BS and figure out what it is that you actually want to do. You might start by talking to all your family that supposedly has military experience!

You can Join the Navy as an officer. Do you have a associates? Whatever you pick. I wish you luck.

Go air force, load master and we can meet when I get my ship date the end of summer lol

you're not going to be 17 forever. how about thinking into the future?

As far as the federal service academies, there are a few weeks still left for high school juniors to to apply for the Naval Academy Summer Seminar, West Point SLS and Uscga AIM. The deadline to apply for Usafa Summer Seminar was Feb 28. High School Juniors can begin to apply for Nrotc and Rotc high School Scholarships. Afrotc is apparently not accepting applications from HS Juniors this year till June. The selection process is nearly identical at the Naval Academy, West Point, and the Air Force Academy, so, whatever is stated on one service academy website or in its catalog with regard to admissions, course selection etc generally holds for the others. If you read the following answer and open the links it should help to explain the selection process and the path to an appointment: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Akhc017ydUhl4cmaSh5LBsHty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20101109140847AAZvjcJ Good understanding of Nrotc by reading the Faq on the website of the nation's original Nrotc Battalion founded by Fleet Admiral Chester W Nimitz: http://navyrotc.berkeley.edu/faq.shtml Good understanding of Afrotc: http://airforcerotc.berkeley.edu/_afrotc-program.htm Helpful to read all the Faq under each tab, scholarships, college life etc: http://afrotc.com/help-center/faqs/ Army Rotc: http://www.duke.edu/~spb7/index.html http://military.isu.edu/scholarships.shtml Plc: http://officer.marines.com/marine/making_marine_officers/commissioning_programs/platoon_leaders_class http://officer.marines.com/marine/making_marine_officers/commissioning_programs Oso: http://openbah.com/marine-ocs-articles/marine-oso-city-list Good Luck!

Go to your high school library and take their Career Aptitude test. That will give you an idea of what kind of job would best suit your personality. Then the ASVAB. It is more than just a single score. It is a group of scores, from each facet of your intelligence. As a group of scores they define a group of MOS / ratings that you could possibly fit into. To be happy in a job, you need to consider bother your personality AND your intelligence [mechanical, clerical, etc] Otherwise this is all guessing.

Um... You don't have to have 20/20 vision for the Air Force. It's a common misconception that EVERYONE in the AF is a pilot. There are a lot of other jobs in the AF, for example, my husband is AF EOD, my father in law was OSI, my father was in communications. the AF treats its people the "best" in regards to living conditions, just about EVERYONE in any branch will tell you that, but if you go into the AF thinking everyone is a pilot, you'll get the snot beat out of you by people at basic. (sad fact, but it's the truth. The military is a good and "stable" lifestyle, but the deployment for the army, marines, and navy are LONG. So good luck in whatever you choose, wish you the best :)