No. Like it or not, if you enter the Army as an E2, E3, or E4, whether by JROTC, university credit, or whatever other reason, your peers who entered the Army with you as E1s are usually going to catch up with you by the time you get promoted again.
Depends. Automatic promotion is six months in service, if I remember correctly, so if your AIT takes you past that point, you'll be promoted during your AIT. If you have less than six months in at the end of your AIT, your instructors may decide to promote you meritoriously if they feel you've earned it.
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You'll still be categorised as National Guard, but yes. You'll go through the exact same BCT and AIT (or else OSUT) as the Regular Army and Army Reserve do.
I should add this injury was during active duty in Basic Training. The soldier is now in AIT and just had a bone scan that revealed the fracture.
AIT
For the US Army during the Vietnam War, men went to boot camp (called Basic Infantryman Combat Training). After successfully completing boot camp, they went to AIT; Advanced Individual Training. 1. AIT-Armor Crewman (tank crewmen) 2. AIT-Infantryman (grunt) 3. AIT-Engineers 4. AIT-Cooks 5. AIT-Truck drivers 6. AIT-Artilleryman 7. AIT-Mortarman 8. AIT-Medic etc.
The length of your Advanced Individual Training is dependent upon which MOS you enlisted as. Different occupations require different amounts of training, hence the length of AIT varies between occupations.
In AIT you'll probably only use iron sights, which you need to get the hang of before you move to reflex sights and optics.
No, it is not, although some MOS have an AIT in which you receive some college credit for completion. @BurningSaviour Do you learn as much?
EVERY occupation in the Army requires you go through AIT for that occupational specialty.
Yes. Members of military reserve components (including both the federal reservists and the National Guard) attend the same Basic Training/Boot Camp as their active duty counterparts.
Depends on your MOS. In you're in an MOS which has One Station Unit Training (such as Army infantry), you would simply continue on as you had before, since you do your Basic and AIT in one package. If you had to go to another post for your AIT, then you'd do that.