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Navy CEC Program

Navy CEC Program

Navy CEC Program

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I'm working with the Navy right now, and they just recently launched a site called www.mynavymyfuture for various Officer programs.  They have a nice Civil Engineering Program for college students, where they pay up to $103,000 a year for tuition, plus up to $4300 in income.  Did anyone enroll in something similar to this while in college?

RE: Navy CEC Program

A couple of my friends went off to college on the Navy's dime, forty years ago.

One of them finished college on the Army's dime (interesting story, takes years to tell).

The other graduated and then spent eight years flying an old airplane over a country whose borders we never officially crossed.

I'm certain that either would do it again, and both would caution that you probably won't end up doing what you intend to do when you start... but that's true of life in general.   It really is like a box of chocolates.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Navy CEC Program

(OP)
haha "years to tell"...I have a few stories myself just like that.  Always seems like those are the stories people ask you about too.

I know a few people as well who chose to go to the military to pay for school, and they had similar experiences with the military.  I think what's great about the Navy's CEC program though is that they don't require military participation until after graduation.  It sets it apart from the reserves.

RE: Navy CEC Program

Take the shock all at once, I guess.  Maybe reduce the dropout rate, too.

Participating in Army ROTC convinced me that I didn't ever want to be in the Army.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Navy CEC Program

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Well I'm sure experiencing ROTC is far different from becoming a Navy Officer out of college.  I personally would love the experience.

RE: Navy CEC Program

I was a nuclear Machinist Mate in the Navy and the only thing I would have done diffently would be to have gone in as on officer!

RE: Navy CEC Program

Officers in the armed forces do has their priviledges.

RE: Navy CEC Program

I would think there is a big difference between a high school senior who has only experienced the first 18 years of their life in a semi-shelltered, semi-controlled enviroment (public school with a slightly normal family), and someone who graduated 4 year of college, and is still highly motivated to do something really big, or a love for their country that is still strong even after 4 years of college. Not to mention that there are a lot of civilian jobs that pay more then military jobs for officers (at least in engineering).

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