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re: How difficult is it to get your kid into a military service academy
Posted on 5/25/18 at 1:52 pm to TDcline
Posted on 5/25/18 at 1:52 pm to TDcline
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Primarily West Point or the U.S. Naval Academy?
How soon do you need to start the application process, and what is that process like?
If your kid isn't balls to the wall military for life, I wouldn't recommend it. I know a lot of people that went out of my HS. Most to AFA, but a couple to West Point and one kid to Coast Guard Academy. My HS had the most AFA in the country, I knew like 5-6 at one point. One was a good friend, one a girl I dated bro.
You are basically starting your military career at 18, to start training to become a high ranking officer.
My point is simply that most people are better off going to ROTC through a normal university. Live and be a dumb 18-22 year old, with some military stuff on the side.
You don't get a lot of chances in the academies to be dumb, and something like a drunk in public can ruin your military career at 18 instead of being a dumb mistake for a 18 year old.
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Posted on 5/25/18 at 5:06 pm to baldona
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My point is simply that most people are better off going to ROTC through a normal university. Live and be a dumb 18-22 year old, with some military stuff on the side.
A couple of posts have stated that there is no difference between a rotc and an academy commission. Not true. If you intend to be career military an academy degree at Annapolis or West Point will get you a regular commission in Army or Marines, but rotc is a reserve commission and much more likely to be cut or passed over for promotion. I
I'm guessing AF works the same.
If you know any of this for sure, please chime in.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 2:14 pm to baldona
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You don't get a lot of chances in the academies to be dumb, and something like a drunk in public can ruin your military career at 18 instead of being a dumb mistake for a 18 year old.
Or it’s possible that some 18 yo don’t need to get drunk or make those mistakes. I did. Repeatedly. But that doesn’t mean it’s a required right of passage.
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