[Ramm]

Thanks for the advice, but how many guys are in a real-life platoon?

I'm not sure I'm the right man for the job, but in the words of a famous man: "damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead". No one knows if they will fail in the military until they actually do it.

ROTC is for college, afterwords you can go in as an officer.

Something like 49 % of officers are ROTC not Academy.

I don't intend to go infantry or pilots, every Marine is a rifleman but not every Marine wears a flack jacket or flight suit to work.