Personally, I think the willingness to serve in the military is extremely commendable. Our military needs lots and lots of Christians and their influence. Not only that, ROTC is an excellent way to earn a commission in the military. Your summers can be used to take some pretty neat courses - even airborne school if I remember correctly. Hard work to be sure, but some big stuff! I think you have to do some active duty training during the summer. If you make the grade, your final two years can be paid for by the military. Yes, there is an obligation for that tuition, but very worthwhile. Even if you choose not to make the military your career, the experience is one that that is awesome both as a life experience as well as work experience for a resume. However, war at it's worse in nothing to be enjoyed. I have no qualms personally about protecting my family with deadly force if necessary, nor would I hesitate in protection of freedom. It is a subject most Christian war vets want to talk about, but they did not hesitate to do what was necessary. However, please remember that there is much more to military than just the use of marshal force - the logistics for supporting a force in the field is huge! Not nearly every group is combat infantry. Still, what stands between our western democracy and those who despise us is a group of good folks who are willing to do something extremely bad to them if they try to do something bad to us. It is often a distasteful job, yet a necessary one.
There are those who disagree with my thoughts on this, but that makes them no better or less of a person. If you are certain that God wants you to move that direction, then by all means obey Him. Just be sure that it is God direction you are following. If it is not God leading you in that direction, you would be wrong to follow it.
Military service is very often not pleasant and difficult - more so than any other job on earth. Yet, it is often very fulfilling in a manner nothing else can match. It is a service and those who are willing to lay their life on the line in place of those they love are to be commended in a manner like no one else should. I am fortunate in that I never even came close to that, yet I would have fulfilled my duty if called upon. Man, was I ever glad when I got out, though. I could have probably made a career of the Navy if I chose to, but I did not think it was for me. I had a deep fear of being separated from my family. Yet, there is a security in being in the military in that my family's medical care was extremely inexpensive - I had to pay for the meals a very menial amount if one was hospitalized. I think my most expensive son cost me around $16 because my wife had to be hospitalized for a week or two before childbirth. I have a niece who had both of her extremely premature and the Navy made sure she and her children received the best of care. Her husband is now a Chief Petty Officer who serves on a submarine and is having an excellent career. He spends about six months a year at sea. And his family does quite well.
Bottom line - if you do go into ROTC, be sure you are following what God has put into you for you to do.
