Service Obligation

kp2001
Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:17:14 +0000

Yes, it is the same as the other academies. The year begins the day you set foot on campus for your junior year. Just realized something, but I’m not sure what that would be if you were at sea for that time. As for the naval reserve thing it goes bye bye as well.

That’s the official line anyway, the unofficial line is that I’ve known plenty of people who have left one way or the other after junior year who have not been seen in a uniform since.

As an aside. If you are even thinking of not completing the coursework at USMMA then do another applicant a favor and withdraw your acceptance and go somewhere else. There is nothing more that I hate than someone who goes to the Academy without thinking it all the way through and taking that spot from someone who really wanted to go. You have to remember that the spot you take cannot be filled again once Indoc begins, so think it through, and if you think you will quit then don’t go at all. **Steps off soapbox.