im in 10th grade and i want to go the the navy when i get out of highschool. Do you think i should attend it?
396387
yes, join the navy. i spent five years there. most importantly, get everything in writing, and make sure you ask for the navy college fund in addition to the gi bill. also, get a guaranteed "a" school in writing. DO NOT go into the navy UNDESIGNATED. Make that recruiter do his damm job, and give you the school you desire.
696086
As a career Sailor, my opinion will shape this answer.  I enlisted as a nuke MM, but 'extraordinary circumstances' shifted my path and I enjoy my life as a flight deck AB.  I would submit to you that neither duty is better in terms of actual career progression (the US Navy is vacancy driven, so as long as somebody leaves, somebody else gets promoted); however, I would clarify that career progression revolves around YOU.  Your attitude, coupled with your 98, should get you in the door, but pure passion for doing the best with the least will get you to the duty station you want, in the rating you want.  After 15 years of Naval service, I can attest that hard work gets the winners to the top.  I would be remiss if I didn't mention that submariners get a little extra hazard pay (submarine pay) for their service, but I prefer fresh air.
470826
I used to be in JROTC in High School and it was cool also. I joined the Navy right after I graduated......heh. Umm you lose a lot of your freedoms. If your family member gets hurt or even a close friend you have to put in paper work and ask permission to visit. As they can say no. It is NOTHING LIKE TV!!!!!!There are @$$holes, dirty people, ignorant people....it is ridicilous. And once again your freedom is signed away.\n\nOnce you sign those papers...your life is in their hands for 4 years. Make sure you don't want to go to college.\n\nI saw a lot of my friends smoke weed so they could get kicked out because it isn't like anyone expects it to be. \n\nThe cadets you are in may be nice, but the military is not meant to be nice. Think about it.
818486
Yeah...I hear that they have the best land-faring navy in the world!!!  I dont know how to join....but would love to know...so please please please let me know how once you find out!!!!\n\nGood luck...and see you there!
275225
22 Navy Vet.  I see a lot of fingers pointing to differant branches, It's not the NAVY you want to join!  It's not really any branch.  I would say join the Coast Guard.  They are military, but then again not.  Run by DHS not DOD.  If you join, keep your mouth shut.  Keep your private life private.  The last thing you want is to be pushed over a side rail 1000 miles out at sea or attacked while out in the woods on training.  Maybe stay in school and choose another career path.
1163519
GO NAVY!!\n First off good for you setting a goal in your life and looking at ways to prepare you for it. \n1. I recommend Studying in school first and foremost.\n2. Once you are in High School do ROTC. \n3. Join a Boy Scout Troop and achieve the rank of EAGLE SCOUT.\n4. Join United States Sea Cadet Corp (good prep)\n5. Get a copy of the Blue Jackets Manual. (study it)\n6. Be physically fit \n7. Eat healthy
427735
I spent 4 years, 8 months, and 27 days in the USN. It was the best and worst time of my life. Getting out was harder than staying in cause I had to start all over in a world I knew nothing about. I lost 5 family members while I was away in the Navy.When I got out,  I took a big pay cut, ended up filing bankruptcy, but now 8 years later, I am making good money, mainly because of the education I got in the Navy. You can't get an education like that in college. Consider the military a great place to start. You can make it in the "real world." Staying in the military may isolate you from all the changes in the world, like it did me. The longer you stay in, the harder it  may be for you to adjust when you leave. Especially if you have a wife, and/or kids, you should get out. You served your time. Greater love has no man than he lay down <a portion of> his life for his <country>
378100
It's up to the CO and maybe the BCN if they want you to go. Upon graduation, SF soldiers are normally promoted to E-5, so they have the right to retain you if they don't think that you are ready to be a NCO. Age requiremtnes, funding issues, available slots are also factors that will weigh in on your chance of getting the school.\n\nDid you enlist under the 18x option? If so, then I believe you have the right to attend the school after a sufficient TIS. If not, then it is a commander's decision.
493952
i would suggest going to the high school so that you only have to go to a different school once, because if you choose the middle school the following year you'll have to switch schools again and that can be hard
364120
There are no better or best. There is bragging among the membres of the various groups, but only in a joking way the way you would brag about your high school being better than another high schoool.\n\nThe two groups are both elite in their service, Special Forces in the Army of which I was once a member and the Navy Seals. \n\nThey are trained for two different missions, but both are highly trained units with lots of the latest weapons, escape and evasion techniques as well as languages of various regions.\n\nSpecial Forces are taught to jump from airplanes as well as helicopters to secure an objective,like airports, ammo dumps, political buildings, recapture prisioners. They also gather intelligence of ground troup strenght or an area. They might also be sent in to train the people from a certain country and set up groups to fight.\n\nSeals do the same but mostly in and around the sea or other water areas, though they might also find themselves on the ground doing a job also.\n\nSo to say that one is better than the other is not something that you can compare,since each are given different missions and goals to accomplich.\n\nA person should be proud if they are selected to become a member of either of these highly trained units. They are also opened up to women now. You must join the Army to become a memeber of Special Forces and the Navy to be selected to be a Navy Seal\n\nI hope this has been of some use to you, good luck
644508
you should seriously reconsider your decision, look around at whats happenning in this world, you are very young give yourself a chance, you seem to be very smart so think long and hard about any decision you make to join the armed forces, our soldiers are the bravest and best in the world but i womder how many would tell you to pick another career, whatever your decision may be God Bless You and all of our brave men and women who protect and fight for our country, also don't forget to include your parents in this decision.
1069546
Depends.  Boot Camp , absolutely not.   as for A or C schools, generally speaking if a school is longer than six months, the Navy will pay to move your spouse and children to your duty station and you would get BAH for that location(or base housing)\n\nThat being said.. once you have arrived at A or C school.. there is absolutely NOTHING standing in the way of her moving on her own dime to be near you.  Just remember that each school has its own policies regarding living arrangements(some schools do not allow the students tolive anywhere but int he barracks, regardless of marital status or location of family members, for instance) and priviledges such as being allowed off base overnight or weekends.  \n\nIt is generally advisable to get to your first permanent duty station before bringing your family along.  Unless it is a remote or Unacompanied Tour, the Navy will pay for it.  And if it is, then they couldn't come anyway, even on their own dime.  Trust me she wouldn't want to live in Diego Garcia anyway.... Schools should be a time for concentrating on studies and is NOT a proper reflection of TRUE Navy Life.  Life in the Fleet is Vastly different.
25770
Short answer: Yes.\nWhoever said that high school is supposed to be the best years of your life must have been high for most of it.\nDon't let it get you down (I assume you're still in school?)  Trust me, it gets better.  WAY better.
755210
Joining as a medical assistant is probably one of the better branches to join although qualifications and job are not really comparable to a nurse or paramedic. The first year or so in training is nothing like serving with the fleet so if you join dont expect to see much of the real navy until you get on a ship. If you can stand it its a great experience and you will get to do and see things that you would never get a chance to do otherwise.
952979
The navy is a great branch of service.  The opportunities are plentiful, the duty is important, the travel is priceless in terms of seeing the world at no cost to you.  The learning is unprecedented in terms of knowing about life.  Those salty, older seamen take youngsters, like yourself, under their wing and teach you many of the important facets of living in the world, today.\n\n  I'm not talking about the academics taught in colleges and universities, I'm talking about the social and practical challenges that a sailor might experience in a foreign land, or aboard ship, or interfacing with fellow seaman, or simply the things mom and dad forgot to mention.  \n\nThe service is a growing process for many young men and women because you are still in the development years of your life.  Take advantage of it and enjoy it. Years later, you will look back at life as a seaman with great fondness.  This is not bias on my part, because I served six years as a Marine.
344670
Visit a Navy recruiter.  Ask him all the questions you like.\n\nThen don't believe a word he says - he is just there to get you to enlist, and he is not responsible for anything you think he promised.  You will not necessarily get the school he promised, or to be stationed at the place he promised, or to stay with your friends as he promised.
446875
Two good choices are the Naval Academy or West Point.  Steer clear of the Air Force Academy, they just don't have much history.