If you don’t want to be officer in the military, is it still worth it to go to a military academy?
If you want to study law, you should major in English Literature and learn how to interpret literature works because you’ll do a lot of interpretation in litigation and testimonies. Studying law involves a lot of reading and it’s hard work. This is what some real lawyers told me including some Air Force and Marine Lawyers who were Officer Selection Officers at my college. So English literature is the one you should be majoring on nothing else except maybe for those who are engineer and science majors that are in those majors to be patent lawyers or environmental lawyers.
I’m not going to tell you how to get into the Academy because I never went there, other people in this thread who’ve “been there and done that” said it best. But I do know that it is very, very, very hard to get into there. You have to be like a valedictorian in your high school, score very high in the SATs, and played sports throughout high school. If you’re an enlisted servicemen, you have to be an outstanding NCO leader among your enlisted peers and score very high on the ASVAB. Not just any average Joe Shmuckatelli off the street can get in. My cousin is an enlisted Marine and is trying to get into the Naval Academy via NAPS (Naval Academy Preparatory School)
As for being a pilot, that’s not really true that you have to be an engineer to become pilot. I know the Air Force and NASA prefers pilot candidates to be engineers and science majors. But I’ve seen some Navy and Marine Corps pilots who were not engineers but liberal arts and business majors. There are high school dropouts in California, Washington State, and Alaska who are civilian bush pilots (the people who put out wildfires). You don’t need a science degree to fly a plane, maybe knowledge of basic physics and meteorology. They’ll teach you everything you need to know in civilian flight school or military flight school. Check out these websites for becoming a military pilot:
http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/…
http://www.fighter-pilot.org/
http://www.fighter-pilot.org/forum/…
This entry was posted
on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 am and is filed under Pets.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.