<prompt> Human: Is it worth the investment for paying 8k a year plus 300 a month. Yet having to serve 40 days a year. With the possibility of being called apon by the American government.  <response>: I joined the military for tuition benefits and it was great. I had a blast. Here are some pro tips:1 Ideally you want to find a guard unit near where you are going to school. Your MOS does not matter, just do whatever job is available. Odds are you are going to be a janitor anyway, but it wont be for long.After you have completed 30 credits, apply to join the simultaneous membership program SMP. If accepted, you get advanced to Sergeant, become non-deployable and get a full tuition scholarship. You also get a pretty heavy stipend in addition to your sergeant pay. In exchange, you become an officer after graduation and are in charge of the janitors instead of being a janitor after graduation. Its a solid gig. Source: supervised janitors.2 If are really lucky sometimes you need an associates degree for this, you can get a medical technician MOS, this is where the guard pays for you to learn to be an X-ray tech or a respiratory tech, or an optician, etc.. Now you have free tuition see 4 below, a high pay skill and are on your way to a very well paying job. If you are near a large military hospital this might be possible, but these positions are super rare.Some colleges have programs that compliment these positions to reduce your time to degree. You can totally skip ROTC and just do this job. Your bachelors degree puts you in an amazing position to be a supervisor very quickly after graduation. The con with this strategy opposed to 1 is that you can be deployed.3 If you want to be a physician, things are really tricky. There is a program for pre-medical students in the Guard, but those are rare. Once you matriculate, you need to reach out to the medical recruiter to get that figured out.4 Be really certain you understand your states tuition waiver policy. In California, you need to serve two years before the tuition waiver goes live. If you are on plan 1 and you fail to get SMP, you may be a janitor for a long time with minimal rewards. Source: supervised janitors.Theres no bad decision here. I really wish you well. 