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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom of current USAFA Firstie and a Sophomore on a full 5-yr Army Reserve scholarship at Texas A&M; both engineering majors.

With one at an academy and one at a traditional university; I would say the ROTC route offers more opportunities as a student and perhaps the service academy route offers a bit more of a network career wise, though that may not be the case for graduates of VMI, Va Tech, Citadel, Texas A&M etc as they also produce many officers every year.

DH spent 20 years as a Naval Pilot and he did not graduate from Annapolis and has had a great military career and retirement career. It worked out for us. [/quote]

Congrats! You must be proud! This is great info. I know it’s early, but do your dc know their desired career paths yet? Are they happy with their choices so far?

Did you and your family move around a lot with your dhs career? My niece and her newish dh are Navy pilots. They’re very happy so far. They were in Japan together for a few years but are now back in the US. [/quote]

My Firstie is graduating and commissioning into the Space Force at the end of May. We are so thrilled and proud! She will go into training for a year before getting her job. Job drops for cadets that picked up Air Force were announced this fall; Space Force does it differently as they will receive their jobs after about a year of training.

Our Army cadet has monthly drill as a part of his contract and is drilling at a helicopter unit and naturally wants to fly helicopters now. We’ll see.

It’s not for everyone, though I am so proud that our kids have chosen to serve and are part of a shrinking number of young people who are physically, mentally, and academically qualified to do so.[/quote]

We stayed East Coast for most of my husband’s career, Norfolk and Pax River mostly. Then rounded out the last couple of tours in gorgeous Monterey, CA at NPS, can’t complain. [/quote]

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