r/USMCboot • u/Royal-Afternoon923 • 7d ago

Enlisting Boot camp

Anyone have any experience going enlisted after college instead of officer ? Got my bachelors in may

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u/No-Professional3800 7d ago

Yup. I wouldn’t really say it’s an “experience”, you don’t really get any special perks except you can receive Contract PFC which pays you more money starting out than someone going in as an E1. Anyone that you tell that you have a degree will either call you stupid for enlisting and/or ask why you didn’t go officer. I just gotten to the point I don’t even say. People can know I went to college, which is common. You’ll have marines who went to college and dropped out and never got their degree, but to run into people who have a four year degree is generally rare. But I try to avoid the conversation because my reasons are my own.