Leadership Training and Commitment

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@kp2001

USNA69, you would be so upset if someone wrote something like this about your beloved USNA. This is an example of someone not fully understanding the commitment of a KP graduate.</p>

<p>A graduate does not have 6 years to complete the 5 year requirement. The five year requirement is for five years after graduation, you don’t have a free year in there. (THere are 2 yr exemptions availabe, but very hard to get)

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<p>Hey, you guys are awful sensitive. Nothing derogatory intended at all. You yourself have stated several times that sea billets are difficult to obtain. So why would it be so awful to take 6 year to obtain 5 years of required service? I would see that as preferable to ‘selling out’ to the shore side.</p>

<p>It just seemed to me that the MARAD reporting requirements below alluded to allowing six years to complete the requirements:</p>

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Report Compliance to MARAD:
Report to MARAD annually concerning
your compliance with the foregoing maritime
service obligations, as set forth in the next
paragraph.
You are required to report in each year following
your year of graduation to inform
MARAD about your compliance with your service
obligations. Regardless of the date of
your graduation, each graduate must submit
a service obligation report from between January
1 and March 1, starting the first January
1 after graduation and for at least an additional
six (6) consecutive years thereafter.
Graduates are required to file reports through
to the last report that demonstrates that all
obligations have been satisfied. If a graduate
completes the service obligations within the
six years following graduation, each graduate
should only have to file a total of seven (7)
reports in order to give information on all six
(6) years of service obligations.

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