Looking into Navy life

[CreoleKidd19]

Hello all, I'm 19 and this year starting my education as a nurse. This year I will be working on LPN classes and one day I would like to work my way up to Nurse practitioner. I have always admired any military personnel for their strength and courage. I had a cousin who was a Master at Arms in the navy but passed away while serving his duties. So ever since then I've given them even more respect. I would like to know anyone take on being in the Navy and being a nurse at the same time. I would like to have a family and get married someday in a few years so I'm thinking it would be better for me to join the reserves. I just have a few questions and anyone can feel free to put in more info if they want to by all means the more the merrier. 1. If I joined while in school (right now) would I have to deploy now? 2. How long are deployments in the Navy? 3. How is life in the reserves VS active duty? 4. Is it better to join after I get my degree or before? 5. Would you rather being a civilian nurse or naval nurse? 6. What are all the benefits? 7. What is basic training like? 8. If I join as a nurse do I still go to bootcamp? 9. What is Nurse Candidate Program and how does it work? 10. How many times would I get deployed and most likely where too as a nurse (Active and Reserve times) those are a few questions I'd like to get answered thank you all!

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

Many of your questions have been answered many times in this forum; did you try using the search function? That might be helpful, or even reading back a page or two.