Quoted: Total bullshit. If you enlist in the Guard you'll be in SMP status, and if your Guard unit goes, you'll go too. After you finish AIT , that is.
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Errnnntt, wrong! I'm the enrollment officer for an Army ROTC program. If he joins the ARNG now and goes to BCT this summer under Split-Op, he'll be nondeployable for a year. If he goes to AIT next summer and is MOSQ'd, he'll be deployable until he contracts with ROTC. Once he contracts, he is non-deployable. If he signs in May before he goes to AIT, he will not go to AIT. He'll also not be eligible for all of his educational entitlements like MGIB and Kicker if he contracts before he completes AIT. He needs to think about this before he signs the paperwork. He might want to consider Leaders Training Course and then contract with ROTC. He may also be eligible for a scholarship.
BTW, I am a reserve officer and have spent the last 13 years in both the Guard and Reserve so I'm not biased against the RC.