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Marine or Navy option for NROTC?
- Thread starter Chris94
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Chris94
CWO selected
Well I've never been camping....
You must have some "other aspirations or desires" beyond the uniform. There are some intersections (similar options, like Naval Aviation), but generally the two services are quite different, in terms of personal desires/motivations, service cultures and most career paths/specialties/designators/MOSs...however you want to label them.
If you want to be a SWO…don't go Marine option, and if you want to be an infantry officer, don't go Navy.
Since you posted an AW, I'm going to make two assumptions:
1. Your PRIMARY desire is to serve your country as a NAVAL officer (refers to both USN and/or USMC)…successful completion of NROTC in either path will get you there…again, HUGE differences, usually the choice is driven by very personal/family legacy/individual challenges reasons.
2. You probably want to FLY. No guarantee of that, specifically, in either path. Assuming you do succeed in that, again…there are some intersections…flying Hornets and someday a variant of the F-35 come to mind. Much of the rest is quite different in terms of T/M/S aircraft, operating environments, mission sets, yadda yadda yadda.
My best advice: Keep your eyes and mind open and see what appeals to you as the experience comes. Don't know when you need to decide…later (after a year?) would be better, because you would get a lot of exposure to folks from both services, but I don't know how the current thing works.
I doubt you'll be disappointed with whatever decision you make. But if there's nothing deep in your gut that says "I wanna be a Marine!", then GO NAVY…BEAT ARMY!
CharlieMike
Wannabe
I had a friend who applied for one this year who wants to be an aviator, but didn't know for which service. He finally decided on Navy, because if he doesn't become a pilot, he likes the Navy ratings better than the other MOS's Marine officers can get. So that's my .02...choose partly based on what you want to do if you don't become an aviator. Even though the Marines do work with the Navy, there's a part of the Corps that's on the ground, whereas Navy is pretty much sea and air focused, so there's that too.
Now, if you're going by uniform, I don't know, you decide:
FIFY.
Luckily, chicks dig 'em both…although you will spend precious little time in either of those uniforms.
CharlieMike
Wannabe
Thanks for the correction, sir.