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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you first to get nominated by your state senator before applying to any of the military academies?![/quote]

West Point, Annapolis, and USAFA require Congressional nominations, in a throwback to the days when services feared that members of Congress on military approps and oversight committees would dominate appointments.  Each Member of Congress and Senator has an allocation number - all equal.  The number in total is much much bigger than each Freshman/plebe/midshipman/cadet class, and in some cases it's a formality.  You often don't have to be nominated by your own member -- if you have a connection to a different Member/Senator, that person can nominate you, but even if you hate your Member/Senator's politics, this is often seen as a customary constituent-courtesy to simply give the nomination (Members/Senators who are swamped with applications will sometimes require an application for nominations).  Children of certain categories of vets, and ex-enlistees, and a few other categories don't require nominations.  Each academy can request from a pool "unallocated" nominations that haven't been used up, for the benefit of un-nominated preference recruits, like some athletic recruits.  The US Merchant Marine Academy (which confers Navy, Marine Corps and sometimes Coast Guard reserve commissions) operates like the 3 military service academies.  Each of the 3 military service academies also has a one-year prep program, usually for ex-enlistees but NOT always, and if you graduate from the prep school you usually don't need a Congressional nomination.  The Coast Guard Academy has been completely non-political since forever, and requires no nomination.  
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