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Hello everyone!
I am nervous but kinda relieved I found this site. The service academy forums are more limited in scope by nature.
I have a daughter who is finishing up freshman year of high school. We picked this high school so she could continue with sea cadets. She has been in for 2 years and loves it. For a year before that is when she “decided” on the navy. She is excelling. We am proud and 100% supportive.
She is a great student, but it’s hard work more than aptitude. She has a 3.8 gpa unweighted with honor classes. She is loving her trainings. Ribboned at basic. She did 3 years of rowing (crew) before giving it up for sea cadet time commitments and now does soccer. She is also a Girl Scout.
She (and I) would lover her to do NROTC. But I don’t think she can get the 1200 minimum for the SAT. She’s just not that type of tester. I think her ASVAB will be fine.
Now. Do we encourage her to enlist or try to do college with the $$$. Enlist she can do college classes it will just take longer but there is no guarantee of OCS or anything. But she would love her job. Is the money that bad that it would ruin it for her?
What have been your enlisted sailors reactions to their lifestyles vs pay scale? Would they do it again or opt for college and debt for officers pay? What about vice versa?
I know it seems early but she my daughter is already there in her mind. Her COs love her. She is already spending spring break working with our coast guard and summer scholarship to learn how to sail a tall ship not to mention trainings. She wants this for her life.
Thanks!!!!
I am nervous but kinda relieved I found this site. The service academy forums are more limited in scope by nature.
I have a daughter who is finishing up freshman year of high school. We picked this high school so she could continue with sea cadets. She has been in for 2 years and loves it. For a year before that is when she “decided” on the navy. She is excelling. We am proud and 100% supportive.
She is a great student, but it’s hard work more than aptitude. She has a 3.8 gpa unweighted with honor classes. She is loving her trainings. Ribboned at basic. She did 3 years of rowing (crew) before giving it up for sea cadet time commitments and now does soccer. She is also a Girl Scout.
She (and I) would lover her to do NROTC. But I don’t think she can get the 1200 minimum for the SAT. She’s just not that type of tester. I think her ASVAB will be fine.
Now. Do we encourage her to enlist or try to do college with the $$$. Enlist she can do college classes it will just take longer but there is no guarantee of OCS or anything. But she would love her job. Is the money that bad that it would ruin it for her?
What have been your enlisted sailors reactions to their lifestyles vs pay scale? Would they do it again or opt for college and debt for officers pay? What about vice versa?
I know it seems early but she my daughter is already there in her mind. Her COs love her. She is already spending spring break working with our coast guard and summer scholarship to learn how to sail a tall ship not to mention trainings. She wants this for her life.
Thanks!!!!
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This is an interesting question. My sailor is enlisted and he just didn't want to do any more schooling in order to become an officer. Our discussions never focused on the pay difference,but more on the Navy life style differences of enlisted vs officer. He was NJROTC all 4 years of high school and an officer both Jr and Sr year,so he knew he could handle the leadership,but he also likes being hands on.
Because I didn't want him working while he was in school, Navy pay sounded like a fortune to him and he had all these plans of saving almost every penny and coming back at the end of his enlistment with a sizeable nest egg. That's not going to happen but if he got out today, the car he bought brand new off the lot about a year in would be 3 or 3 payments from being paid off. He also has an awesome gaming computer, an equally impressive lap top, large flat screen,etc, as well as a couple of pieces of "grown up" furniture all paid for.
Sure he complains about the pay, but for an entry level job here, with no food or housing allowance , he'd be worse off. He'll go to school using his benefits and increase civilian earnings that way.
Aren't all 20 Year old's, whether in college or own their own, supposed to be broke?
He has a housemate and the rent a two bedroom single family house. He mostly likes his job and his life. And that is what matters most to me and to him.
Hope that helps
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