Cross Branching from West Point

oldpilot1972
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 01:25:28 +0000

The class profile statistics for both school are virtually identical. What makes you think it will be easier to get into West Point than USNA? If your grades are not high, then you won’t get into either school.

That being said, the possibility to cross-commission still exists, but in recent years has become quite rare. If you want to commission to a different military branch, you will need to have a valid reason, and also there needs to be someone from USNA who wishes to commission to the Army. It needs to be a trade of sorts, since the Army is not going to spend $400K on your education and get nothing in return. Also, even if the stars aligned and you could change to Navy, the aviation billets will be gone for your class a year before you graduate, so you would most likely have to go SWO and then apply for an aviation slot from the fleet.