Don't do it.

12/2/2008 1:07:15 PM

BigEgo, I've seen a lot of replies on this thread about what you do BEFORE you are in (i.e., how to get in). What I haven't seen is how it is ONCE you are in (forget all of the training crap...you go through that everywhere).

I enlisted in the navy in 1996 and earned a Navy ROTC scholarship two years later. Went to state from January '99 to May '03 and have been a submarine officer for five years. If that's a route you want to take, PM me and I'll set you right. As well as FeebleMinded.

Don't listen to the people who haven't done it and just want to troll.

12/2/2008 1:14:30 PM

^pm sent

12/2/2008 1:19:50 PM

ill tell you this

my roommate for four years joined the navy to pay for school, he was gonna do it for four years, leave and find a civilian job with his degree

after less than a year out of school working for the navy doing absolutely nothing and making bank he realized he could do this for 20 years, retire, then collect a pension for the rest of his life living nicely

needless to say he's staying in the navy and he loves it

[Edited on December 2, 2008 at 1:24 PM. Reason : .]

12/2/2008 1:23:37 PM

^staying in the navy for a while is obviously an option, but i'm not sure how that'd go as far as eventually creating a family. if i was able to stay in charleston or something like that as an instructor or for some other job, it may be able to work, but if i spent 70%+ of my next 20 years after college in a sub or on some cruiser i don't think it'd be so easy to get a family started.

12/2/2008 1:26:56 PM

^reply sent

12/2/2008 2:19:28 PM