re: aTm fans: Is your band comprised of corps of cadets members?

I've never heard anyone claim that membership in a military student organization is the same as active duty service.

Every officer in the armed forces did some version of this at one point or another. And if a kid doesn't choose to take a commission when he graduates, then it's still some pretty great management training for whatever he wants to do. I wasn't ever interested in becoming a career military officer, but I have a bachelors degree because someone made me PT until I puked if I didn't study every damn day when I was 18.