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Originally Posted by OORAH I read that if you go to West Point, as long as your grades are good, you can choose what branch you want to go in. I that true? |
It's an Army terminology thing -- if you go to West Point, you'll serve in the Army, period. The term "branching" comes from determining which branch of the Army you'll go into: Infantry, Armor (i.e., tanks), Artillery, etc. There have been instances where a graduate from one service academy wound up in another branch of service (I think one of the current or recent US Navy Blue Angel pilots actually graduated from the US Air Force Academy), but it's very, very rare.
Regardless of where you go to school (Naval Academy, another service academy, or civilian college as a Marine-option Navy ROTC midshipman), you should be striving to get great grades, be a leader in your extracurricular activities (i.e., team captain of your sports teams, etc.) and participate in different activities (as long as you like doing them -- don't just do something for the sake of doing it).