V. says full-boat ROTC (i.e., they paid for all of your education) for college include(d) a 5 year post-college active duty commitment plus 4 years in the Reserves, though you might want to check. You're basically treated like you've gone to one of the service academies, and you're an officer going in, including a month of summer training each year during college in addition to ROTC duties during the school year.

You're right, though-- while you're active, you can't have another job beyond your assigned duty post. So this would involve Jim either just starting his post-active duty "real world job" as a Medevac pilot and entering into his reserve duty (26'd put him at about the right age, assuming graduation from college at 21)-- and he'd be subject while in the Reserves to reactivation and the afore-discussed Really Big Trauma.

It'd be interesting if he was in law school at night in between Medevac flights. Overachieving, Jim, much? ETA: And if they weren't paying for his law school because he didn't want to be in the Navy forever-- or wanted to do JAG, but only stay in as long as he wanted to stay in, not because of some service commitment, and so he wanted to pay for it on his own... OH, Yuppie Bones! making all kinds of get-you-in-trouble assumptions. *g*