Want to join OTS but maybe not enlist. Would banks look down upon this?

I want to do Marine Officer Training School but am not sure if I want to join Marines afterword. If I don't join the marines I'd want to do Sales&Trading. Would banks look down upon the fact I didn't join the marines? Or would the OTS be a positive?

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You will be weeded out pretty quickly if you don't really want to become a Marine. Additionally, I would imagine it would be looked at with a lot of suspicion as to why someone would go through OTS and not become a USMC.

 

I'm pretty sure you sign a contract of some sort to do those standard 4 years of service before actually starting OTS. So you may be "stuck" in the marines. Unless you really fuck up OTS on purpose.

 

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