Re: [TML] Naval Academy & Officer Commissions Kurt Feltenberger 04 Sep 2021 23:11 UTC
On 9/4/2021 3:19 PM, Jim Vassilakos - jim.vassilakos at gmail.com (via tml list) wrote: > Back in Classic Traveller, graduation from the Naval Academy meant an > automatic commission. In Mongoose, you have to roll. What do the wise > denizens of the TML think of this? I think it's something (Mongoose Traveller) written by someone who doesn't understand how service academies work. If you refuse a commission from a US service academy you're responsible for six years of service in compensation (IIRC, that's what it was when I was doing some research for a book I was working on) or you must pay a rather sizable tuition bill. If they didn't want you as an officer, they'd fail you and expel you from the academy. I don't know how foreign service academies work, but I have trouble believing that they'd train someone to be a commissioned officer and then say, "Here, roll these dice and see if we decide to hire you" (Metaphorically speaking). -- Kurt Feltenberger xxxxxx@thepaw.org/xxxxxx@yahoo.com “Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com