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Pre Commissioning USCG Education

August 13, 2008 By admin

The United States Coast Guard has a program for those that are interested in serving their country as a commissioned officer. It is an educational pre commissioning program for college juniors enrolled in a college degree program for a Bachelor of Arts Degree. This is a challenging program that leads to a long rewarding career serving in the Military, as a commissioned officer. It is a program for pre commissioning student initiative scholarship program is for those students who are about to enter their third year of college, or their junior year.

Those people that apply for the program and who win the scholarship are awarded the following benefits: a monthly housing and food allowance, full tuition books and fees, a monthly salary of about 2,000 dollars, all textbooks and miscellaneous school costs paid, thirty days paid vacation a year, free medical, dental and life insurance, and various levels of leadership and individual mentor training.

This is a program designed to encourage college students to enroll and become Coast Guard commissioned officers. To qualify you must be a U.S. citizen, have an accumulated GPA of 2.5 or better, be able to meet all the physical requirements for a Coast Guard Officer, be between the ages of 21 and 26 years of age. This Coast Guard Educational Scholarship program is a lucrative one should you be chosen to participate. The Coast Guard recruits and establishes new commissioned officers from both the female and male ranks each year, and when you become a commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard you agree to serve for five years.

You have to already be enrolled with a four year program with a defined course of study leading to a four year degree, and you have to have had a high score on the ASVAB or a corresponding high score on the SAT or SAT II tests. It has applications, which close each spring for the following year, which determines the next scholarship class for the fall term.

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You must also already possess at least 60 credits with at least a 2.5 overall GPA average. After that you have the option to continue your career or to resign your commission and enter the civilian world. This can be a lucrative career choice for most people.

Filed Under: Education, Updates

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  1. Jon Burleigh says

    December 20, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    Hi, I am very interested in pursuing a career with the coast gaurd. After my next semester I will have 60 credits and I would like to know what the next step is.

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