Originally Posted by coryk
Ya man! STA-21 for sure. Although you have it somewhat mixed around. If you get selected for STA you will first start out at NSI in Newport, RI then you head to an ROTC unit, although you must both get selected for STA as well as gain admission to the college you plan to go to, and you will have 36 months to complete a BA/BS degree. You must first get the degree approved by a detailer (they can figure out if you can finish in the appropriate time) once you do that, your off to OCS, commissioned, and then head to training for whatever area you were selected for. One thing about STA is that when you submit your package, you will be applying for a certain field, whether it be NA, NFO, nuke, intel, etc, etc. So if selected you will have it written in your contract which field you will be going to. Pretty cool IMO. BTW, I'll be applying for that every year, but I'm not going to ruin myself if I don't make it, I'll just have to suck it up at the regionals for awhile.
I guess they changed it. A number of years ago you did the pipeline and JO tour first, then went to college. That way the college part fit into your normal sea-shore rotation as opposed to being an "extra" shore assignment.