Scholzpdx, based on your initial posts I would say it is a good option for you to explore in detail.
Your best bet is to go to talk to both regular recruiters and to someone who is a ROTC recruiter at a local college - they can lay out your options, incentives and obligations.
The majority of people who join up look back on the experience as something that molded them and made them what they are in both good and, much more rarely, bad ways.
If you were in the Reserves or National Guard, Army or Marines, right now, you might be likely to get deployed overseas every other year with the current operational tempo, but who knows what will happen in terms of the U.S. staying engaged in current or future hot spots. Navy and Air Force have different issues. If I were going to take the step of enlisting I would take every option to train up to the possibility of active deployment, even if you never actually do get deployed.
As you are a college student you might consider officer training options as well. The pay is much better and it is a different kind of challenge as you are going to be required to apply leadership and management skills right up front.
I spent a number of years in the US Army Reserve as an airborne infantry officer.
I got into it because I was running out of money for school, did not have a job between my sophomore and junior years in college and wanted to do something more with myself than the typical academics and boring summer jobs. Sound familiar?
I actually first checked out the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class because they offered a Naval Aviator flight training option. Wound up not going there cause my eyes did not meet spec during the flight physical.
USMC Platoon Leaders Class
They offered me the Infantry (Ground) option instead, but I figured that if I were going to deploy I wanted to go with more firepower backing me up and the Army had a great alternative program available.
At the time I was checking things out, the Army offered a no-obligation plan - first go through an officer candidate Basic training for 9 weeks at Fort Knox and then decide if you want to sign a long term contract for 2 years of ROTC and then service as an officer (I seem to remember a 3 years active duty and then four in the Reserves contract after graduation was standard. I put in a total of 12 years before moving on to other things, wish I had stayed in for 20 now to get some retirement benefits.)
There is no equivalent right now that I could find in a fast search, but I did find the U.S. Army Leader's Training Course -
U.S. Army Leader's Training Course
It looks like a month (too short!) to give you some kind of Basic training and then you go for two years of ROTC before commissioning. You may be branch selected for any number of occupations depending on what your skills and major are and the needs of the Army. (I wanted Intel but got Infantry because my leadership scores were off the chart!)
Like I said, I initially went through a 9 week Basic Training course at Ft. Knox that was roughly 6-7 weeks in a field training environment and I loved it, though I wasn't particularly good at it at the time. I was in shape but no jock, should have been running three miles a day and weight lifting before going in, etc. I hated the two years of ROTC drilling while at the same time excelling at all of the field/tactics training they could throw my way.
I subsequently got much, much better and pretty much went the whole way in taking everything the Army offered in the way of combat arms training and assignments - mech infantry, airborne, Ranger, etc. As a Reserve officer with lots of active duty assignments I wanted to do something completely different than the business management I did as a civilian.
The military in any of the services is not for everyone. I don't think you can necessarily tell if it will be a fit for you until you experience it. Army Reserve and National Guard drills can be boring, but if it is a fit you will take advantage of the training and experiences that are available in abundance and likely get a whole lot out of it, IMHO.