Over the past 13 years, I have known a handful of enlisted SEALs come through USNA on the same basis as other prior enlisted personnel offered a place in the Brigade. It's not that big a community, so they are not as visible among thousands unless you see that silver SEAL warfare pin up close and personal. One was the Brigade XO a few years ago, a superb leader. There are many ECP (enlisted commissioning programs) out there. Quite often SEALs will choose to go to college in one of the major SEAL homeports such as San Diego or Norfolk and then be commissioned, to stay closer to the community. Many enlisted personnel, because they already have family or have an age limit problem for USNA, choose other paths to degrees and commissions.
I can't recall what those prior enlisted SEALs service selected. Nothing is written in stone, so what might be permitted one year is not the next.
sounds like it.so is NYCUSNA inaccuate on the post were the policy is to not accept seals
dont bet on this. The thing is - the academies are very good at exploiting weaknesses in an individual. True some seem to sail through but most don't.because theres nothing they can throw at them that will break them down?
so is NYCUSNA inaccurate on the post were the policy is to not accept SEALs because theres nothing they can throw at them that will break them down?
This past year several Active Duty Marines entered the Academy, several with combat experience and Purple Hearts.
Like the SEAL question, Enlisted Personnel can be admitted into the Academy. And I don't think the Academy is going to deny someone based on them having already been through tough training.
In fact, it improves their chances of making it through Plebe Summer and the Academy significantly. I think the Academy would look at that favorably.
On the other hand. Enlisted sailors and Marines have several options available to them to become commissioned, whether they are SEALS or not, and that in itself is likely to reduce the percentage of SEALS who actually apply.
Just my 2 cents.
sounds like an oxymoron to me.I said unoffical policy
i assume that if a marine comes in to the academy with combat experience and maybe a purple heart, that the upperclassmen leave these guys alone. I wonder how these people would react if a firstie tried to break these guys with combat experience down on plebe summer
If you are talking about SEALs coming to the academy, the unofficial policy is to not let them in if they successfully went through BUD/S and got their Trident. And it's because there are other ways of getting them commissioned that don't involve the Naval Academy. And thats because if you went through BUD/S, there is nothing the Academy can throw at you that you won't be able to handle, USNA cannot break a SEAL down in order to build them up, and there were numerous cases in the past of upperclassmen trying to mess with a SEAL and there being some very nasty results.
This is also a little off topic, but how does the Marine Corps service selection work?
I mean, when you graduate from USNA, do you go straight into OCS? Or do you go through Basic or something and then they tell you if you're officer material?
Let me know if this is too far off, I'll start a thread for service selection q's.