USMMA path to USCG

Oldpaint
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:00:58 +0000

h20constable, same experience here, but Class of 2011. (We’re almost through!) Three years championship Texas high school football varsity starter, my son was recruited for many months before he decided to go with USMMA. The sports experience–and in particular, Coach Toop’s mentorship, leadership, and realistic approach to taking responsibility for one’s own success and career–has been one of the most important aspects of my son’s time at USMMA.

When the next season’s done, it’s done, and football is over. But my son has taken what he’s learned in the sports program and earned assignments and commendations and medals in academy leadership as well.

And he’s taken that to the Pacific, the Atlantic, and to Navy supply ships in the anti-piracy fight off Somalia.

If that kind of education is a “joke” to some graduates, they may need to look in the mirror for the punch line.