Navy OCS

[jacks]

I'm a U.S Citizen living in Ireland, and due to personal reasons (my girlfriend living in Ireland for now) I'd like to do a degree in a university here and then go for the OCS programme, would this be possible or does the degree have to be from a U.S University?
Alternatively I could do the Irish Navy's officer course, instead of a degree if this would be acceptable?

 

[KBayDog]

I'm a U.S Citizen living in Ireland, and due to personal reasons...

Couldn't bring yourself to return to the US and A after that incredible showing by Navy the other day?

 

[jacks]

I would if I could anytime! But I'm 17.... I have to go wherever my parents make me! And my girlfriend is a year behind me in school so I want to do something in Ireland while she's finishing up, and there is the issue she's a non citizen.

 

[HAL Pilot]

Irish Navy officer's course - acceptable if you want to be in the Irish Navy but to the U.S. Navy is nothing.

Some foreign degrees from some foreign universities can be used to meet the USN criteria. But which universities and which degrees who'd have to ask an officer recruiter to research. It's not common knowledge and it's a relatively few that are acceptable.

BTW, in the U.S. it's program not programme. If you want to be in the U.S. Navy, they will expect you to spell the American way. Not a criticism, just something to start working on.

 

[KBayDog]

And my girlfriend is a year behind me in school...she's a non citizen.

Well done, my friend!

Let me know when the bare-knuckle brawl with her morbidly obese brother happens; I want to be there.

 

[jacks]

Thanks for your advice, yeah I've been here since 2001 so I've been taught the non-American way of spelling things!
I've got a question about deployments too, I hear they are 6 to 8 months on a carrier, are you on the carrier all the time for the duration of the deployment or is there a fair bit of liberty where you can visit foreign ports and say see the sights or your family? And how many years do you spend on Sea duty before you switch to a shore posting, and how long is that shore posting then? Sorry for all the questions, just trying to get all my facts right!

 

[jacks]

Well done, my friend!

Let me know when the bare-knuckle brawl with her morbidly obese brother happens; I want to be there.

Huh? I thought us Americans were supposed to be the fat ones! She doesn't have a brother but her sister does taekwondo and would probably kick all our asses! xD

 

[KBayDog]

Huh? I thought us Americans were supposed to be the fat ones! She doesn't have a brother but her sister does taekwondo and would probably kick all our asses! xD

Son, you need to brush up on your Irish knowledges.

This particular set of knowledges will also help you regain your cred as a 'Murrican.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Irish Navy officer's course - acceptable if you want to be in the Irish Navy but to the U.S. Navy is nothing.

Some foreign degrees from some foreign universities can be used to meet the USN criteria. But which universities and which degrees who'd have to ask an officer recruiter to research. It's not common knowledge and it's a relatively few that are acceptable.

BTW, in the U.S. it's program not programme. If you want to be in the U.S. Navy, they will expect you to spell the American way. Not a criticism, just something to start working on.

Generally the degrees from the UK are ok, but the applicant has to pay for an evaluation from some board here in the US (specific name escapes me), this has to be done AFTER you get the degree, so if you get a foreign degree, and then pay to have evaluated then if it doesn't cut it you are SOL.

If you want to be in the USN that come here and get a degree from the USA.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

I would if I could anytime! But I'm 17.... I have to go wherever my parents make me! And my girlfriend is a year behind me in school so I want to do something in Ireland while she's finishing up, and there is the issue she's a non citizen.

Don't worry about the GF, you are 17, odds are many will come and go between now and when you graduate college, or given the percent of people staying together forever from the age of 17 there should be more girls.

I can tell you from experience if I could go back to when I was 17 I would have done things alot different, and in this order, blonde, brunette, redhead, then repeat.

 

[jacks]

Son, you need to brush up on your Irish knowledges.

This particular set of knowledges will also help you regain your cred as a 'Murrican.

Murricah, fuck yeah! I'll break out the paddycaps and the dutch gold then. xD

Generally the degrees from the UK are ok, but the applicant has to pay for an evaluation from some board here in the US (specific name escapes me), this has to be done AFTER you get the degree, so if you get a foreign degree, and then pay to have evaluated then if it doesn't cut it you are SOL.

If you want to be in the USN that come here and get a degree from the USA.

Yeah I want to be in the USN, but I'm not going to casually travel across the atlantic and abandon my girlfriend for a year before I'm even commissioned in the Navy. I'd much rather pay a bit of cash to a review board and keep my girlfriend! There is a maritime college near where I live here, I could always get a Merchant Navy officers license and apply for OCS with that?

 

[exNavyOffRec]

There is a maritime college near where I live here, I could always get a Merchant Navy officers license and apply for OCS with that?

It has to be what the US would consider a 4 year degree, and we are putting more and more emphasis on technical degrees all the time, so I would consider that.

 

[jacks]

Don't worry about the GF, you are 17, odds are many will come and go between now and when you graduate college, or given the percent of people staying together forever from the age of 17 there should be more girls.

I can tell you from experience if I could go back to when I was 17 I would have done things alot different, and in this order, blonde, brunette, redhead, then repeat.

I was a brunette, redhead, blonde guy, but trust me this is forever, sounds stupid I know, but I don't expect anyone to know the circumstances, so I'll understand if you don't understand! Plus we start younger over here
But regardless the Girlfriend is here to stay, and the fact I have one shouldn't hinder me from serving my country.

 

[jacks]

It has to be what the US would consider a 4 year degree, and we are putting more and more emphasis on technical degrees all the time, so I would consider that.

A lot of 4 year degrees in the U.S are the equivalent of 3 year degrees in Europe though, which may be an issue.

 

[MasterBates]

Unless you are going to an Oxford equivalent... Good luck getting that certified equivalent.

Going through this ass pain right now with a Engineer that works for me that went to Edinburgh

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