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Getting my masters in psychology while enlisted in army?

So I am planning on enlisting in the army as a mental health specialist (68x). Right now I am thinking of doing 3 years active. What I would like to do is get my masters while active, but I don’t know how to go about applying to a grad school while in the army when I don’t even know where my first active duty station would be. I don’t want to postpone active duty to attend grad school because the experience is more important to me, but I feel I can do two things at once.

it depends on where you end up. if you go to a hospitol then you should have enough time for nightschool/dayschool depending on your shift. if you go to a BSB which has 68X’s, then you probably wont get enough time off.
most schools around military bases get that your training comes first and they are relatively flexible.
tried doing a general ed class (forget the subject) when i was on active duty, it met twice a week on tuesday and thursday. i missed half the classes due to training and i got only 2 hours of sleep on tuesday and wednesday night to complete assignments that were due thursday.

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