Truth or not? - Football

AMF said:
Good info as always Tanker, but I think posts were referring to flying pilots rather than sailing pilots. My point was if you really want to fly AFA is better, if you really want to sail, MMA(or CG, or NA) is better. And I disagree slightly with KP soccer coach, all SA's require the 4 year commitment (from 17-21), and KP has 5 year sailing requirement, and 8 year reserve requirement. So minimum commitment for KP is 9 years. The only difference, outside the reserve commitment, the KP grad does not go active duty, while the other SA grads do.
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I realize what type of pilots the individuals were posting about, I was attempting to expose them to something new.

The 5 year sailing commitment is concurrent with the navy reserve commitment. It's 5 years
of doing 2 week ATs followed by 3 years in the inactive reserve/IRR.

You do realize that graduating from another service academy that you incur a 5 year commitment followed by 3 years in the IRR?
 
The soccer coach was basically telling my 17 year old HS junior that was also looking at West Point... If you come to USMMA and graduate at 22 you can still go in the Army if that seems to be your calling. He also talked about a former player that upon MMA graduation joined AF and become a surgeon.

My wife was totally intrigued by USMMA and really wanted my son to go there. In the end, it just was not the service he was looking for. There are two from his HS (Deep Run - Glen Allen, VA) that are currently there and playing football. There was a 3rd that DOR early in the process last fall. Just not a fit for him.
 
USCGA_2018 said:
He also talked about a former player that upon MMA graduation joined AF and become a surgeon.
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A good teammate of mine :) He was a superb soccer player as well. Coach Smolens gets to claim two former soccer players as current surgeons....pretty sure he's the only Coach there that can claim that :)

By the way, not only is the other guy a surgeon, I believe he is now a cardiovascular surgeon.
 
That's awesome kp2001. Coach Smolens is very proud of his current and former players. He likes to brag about their accomplishments on the field, in the classroom and beyond their days at KP,

He likely showed us a picture of you as well. His office and corridor are covered with them. We were quite impressed with his genuine continued interest in his former players and their careers.

Just curious kp2001. Was it your original plan and intention to graduate from KP and pursue a career as a Navy Physician/Flight Surgeon?
 
USCGA_2018 said:
Just curious kp2001. Was it your original plan and intention to graduate from KP and pursue a career as a Navy Physician/Flight Surgeon?
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If you saw a flag flown in Iraq with a picture of a guy in a flight suit that was me.

No, I had no clue I was going to go into medicine. Originally I really didn't have a clue where I wanted to end up other than at a service academy. Possibly flying, possibly JAG, possibly sailing, but really no clue exactly where I wanted to be.

No thoughts of medicine until after at KP and did the EMT course and then had some medical incidents during my sailing periods.
 
tankercaptain said:
I realize what type of pilots the individuals were posting about, I was attempting to expose them to something new.

The 5 year sailing commitment is concurrent with the navy reserve commitment. It's 5 years
of doing 2 week ATs followed by 3 years in the inactive reserve/IRR.

You do realize that graduating from another service academy that you incur a 5 year commitment followed by 3 years in the IRR?
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Yes of course I do. I was merely pointing to the poster who wrote about the soccer coach, in trying to convince a recruit to go to USMMA, "You realize you are 17 years old, at the other SA's you are making a commitment 10 years long". My point was at KP your 'commitment' is 9 years long, albeit not required to be active military. There is indeed a commitment, just a different one.
 
Also, the active duty commitment out of the Coast Guard Academy is five years, not four.
 
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