No Exemptions?? Fine with me! There are no exemptions if you join the reserves only for ROTC after they have contracted with the Army. My son is going through this now.
He joined the reserves because he wanted, He wanted to complete Enlisted Boot camp. This is not a requirement for ROTC. He wanted to prove to himself that Enlisted Bootcamp was OK. It was, but he was in excellent physical condition.
He returned from Bootcamp and went on a ROTC unit exercise. During the exercise he broke his arm. Hasn't contracted for ROTC yet, but should in the next few weeks. Arm prevented him from being deployed to Iraq. He was pretty upset about not being able to go.He's back in College now.
I joined army ROTC in 1988 after my sophmore year so I had to complete the "ROTC Bootcamp" to make up for missing the first two years of campus courses. The ROTC basic training consisted of 6 weeks at Ft. Knox and was a modified form of basic training. We had saturday night and sunday's off, and since most of us weren't under contract we could leave at anytime. However, the field training excercises were pretty tough, we did spend a lot of time in the woods.
Once it was over they tried to get you to sign up. If you did (like me), they sent you to Ft. Bragg the following summer for another 6 week program that essentially was the army's way of paying you back for all that time off at Ft. Knox. We had the morning of July 4th off, that was it (except for a few hours each Sunday morning to attend church). We also spent about 25 of the 42 nights I was there in the field, and Ft. Bragg in June/July isn't exactly a hospitable place to spend your summer.
Good luck to your son, hopefully he gets a good assignment and the broken arm doesn't keep him out long.