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Riley_tt

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For anyone interested in something to do in the summers of your junior and senior year, I would suggest looking into SLCDA. It’s a week long character and development academy that teaches leadership. It’s at Marine Corp base Quantico and the camp itself is free, along with the flight travel being payed for. While there, they talk a lot about the different ways to commission as a marine Corp officer. You hear from numerous panel speakers, wear cami uniforms, do PT and early wake ups, and get to go into Humvee simulators. You also do not have to be in JROTC or have a military background to go. The camp itself is very competitive to get selected, with over 1,000 applications and only 120 selected by the board. If anyone on here is interested, I can answer any questions. If you look up SLCDA online there will be a application page that probably won’t open up until near winter time. This camp was very influential for me, so I suggest that rising juniors and seniors interested in academies or rotc look into it!
 
They also have a Facebook page. I’ve been following it because one of my kids plans to apply next year. My current Marine ROTC kid would have applied if we had known about it at the time!
 
If a USNA candidate were to apply to Boys State and SLCDA, and he were fortunate enough to be offered a spot at both programs, but they both happen to be held during the same week so that he could only attend one of them, which one should he choose?

We know that all of the service academies really like Boys State, and that it counts for a lot of admissions points, but I can't help but think that SLCDA is at least as valuable as Boys State, especially to Annapolis.

I'd love to know what others think on this matter. Thank you.
 
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