What is the best branch of the military to join for an individual with a bachelor's degree?

I've got a 4 year degree in Criminal Justice, and a rather large amount of student loans that will be coming in soon (40k worth). My potential soon to be wife is a RN and is interested in joining with me. Any suggestions out there as the best branch to enter as an officer?|||Match your personality to the service first. Briefly:





Air Force: Stay safe, stay home, live well, deal with technology...but be irrelevant.





Navy: Go places on ships. Be safe, unless excitement is your thing. Be kinda relevant.





Army: Deploy a lot. Be sorta military no matter what your job is. Opportunity to be a high speed warfighter...but totally optional. Deal with people 1st, gear/technology second. You will likely be highly relevant to current conflicts.





Marines: Deploy regularly, train incessantly. Write the history of our current fights. Work with excellent people 50% of the time, and spend the other 50% dealing with the nutjobs we attract. Do not think about this path unless you relish a challenge, and look forward to a good fight. This is not a job: it is a calling.








Your RN wife, btw, will be a quasi-officer in the Army/AF, and 3/4 of the way there in the Navy. If you are in same branch (or you are USMC/she USN), you can get what is called spousal co-location, and you'll most probably be stationed together.|||coastguard (safest military branch). don't let ur fiance/wife join military. Military is for strong athletic muscular men and beautiful women who like to get banged by these very hot strong muscular men. Unless she is a party girl, she shudn't join the military. i m in the military and i love my troops.|||As an Officer any of them. The lifestyle is pretty much the same. Look at your interest and goals and talk to officer recruiters from each branch.|||Any as long as you go in as an officer and a gentleman.|||as an officer, which ever you want.|||an officer? ewwwww! Pick one then dude!|||You have to take the the view on this one.





So you have to see which ones offer you the job you want that will put you on the right career path. I am downing the Marines but do keep in mind opportunity will be more limited with them later as they are a smaller force.





Keep in mind that all of the services work together. Where I work in a meeting a uniform from every branch is there.





Yes there are programs to keep you together but nothing is for sure. That could become an issue if you are both in. To succeed you will both have to do additional schooling along the way so at points you could be seperated for months. Either of you could just get temporary duty somewhere else for a few months. Not good for a marriage.





If your wife would be enlisted that could be problematic for both of your careers. It is somewhat of a social outside of work thing. It may sound trite to you but a wife is one of the major backbones of a military career.





What happens if you decide to have kids?





Plus what happens if you say get stationed where ever and there are no slots there for her? Or you get offered an awesome slot or opportunity and you can't take it because you wish to stick together.





You two are very lucky in the fact that she has an easily portable career and she could get a civilian job anywhere you go. What I am nudging at is the best way to go is that just you join, she does not and go from there. Now I have seen couples pull off both being in but it takes a really strong couple.





But to answer best service it depends on what you want to do, what you think you might be good at and what is offered. If you do well on the ASVAB you might be surprised at what is offered.