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Do different army military schools train for different branches?

I've been researching army military schools for future reference and I was curious, do these schools specialize in preparing you for specific branches within the army or does it depend on the career path you choose?

a year ago

Each branch of the United States military has its own training academies, where you would learn and train specific to the particular needs of that branch.

For future officers in the Army, there's the United States Military Academy, also known as West Point, which is purely for Army officer training. For the Navy, there's the United States Naval Academy, and the United States Air Force Academy trains future Air Force officers. The United States Coast Guard Academy and the United States Merchant Marine Academy train future officers for the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine, respectively. The newest branch, the Space Force, currently commissions its officers through the Air Force training pipeline.

If you're considering enlisting as a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine after high school, you would attend Basic Training (or "boot camp") specific to your branch of service, and you would receive job-specific training at this time.

These trainings do not intertwine. If you went to West Point, for example, you would most likely be commissioned in the Army post-graduation unless there was a specific circumstance facilitating a transfer to a different branch.

Hence, your military school selection should align with the branch you're most interested in. And within that branch, your specific job or career path would typically be determined based on your interests, aptitude, and the needs of the military at the time, which you would learn and specialize in throughout your time in the academy or in subsequent trainings.

a year ago

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