Good day all, thank you for taking the time.....
the Navy has a mission,....
warheads on targets,....
the Navy Nuclear Power Pipeline (NNPP) prepares the vast number of candidates to operate a nuclear steam plant on a warship which puts warheads on targets,...
somewhere on the fringes of that vast number of candidates there are a small number of possible outcomes (for a small number of candidates) which results in something other than operating a nuclear steam plant on a warship,...
it seems that at least 50% of the new users to these threads are gaming for that fringe outcome, and inquiring of the veterans of these boards how to increase the OP's probabilities of acquiring that fringe outcome,...
the job of a recruiter is to convince you that the fringe outcome is much more likely for you because you are special,...
the typical response OPs find here is, "The world may be telling you that you're special, don't count on it.",....
OPs should come here before they ever talk to a recruiter,...
but, look at it this way,...
you're not a math prodigy, if you were you would have already been handed a full ticket scholarship and would not even be on these boards,...
if you're not a math prodigy no one is really interested in the fact that you like math but yourself,...
and no one is ever gonna give you a job because you like math and you would like to work for somebody doing math,...
doing math that a microsoft spreadsheet can do everyday, all day, for an undeniably cheaper investment than hiring you to do math,....
a spreadsheet probably developed by a math prodigy,...
or a programmer with epic skills working in concert with a math prodigy,...
but, then again, in the USN,...
you'll be earning a paycheck, not accruing debt, your math skills should help you discipline yourself with that dose of reality,...
the USN will, sooner or later, pay for your math degree should you seek that outcome, and the immediately preceding statement will be maintained,...
there are other pretty good benefits for some folks (especially starving mathematicians) once you are honorably discharged,...
most of those benefits make finances in your post-Navy years a bit more manageable,...
not to mention post-Navy nuke workers can do pretty well for themselves, and a math degree never hurts in the technical specialist end of the post-Navy nukeworker job market,...
AND, maybe, just maybe at best, YOU will become one of those few fringe outcome persons in the NNPP and actually end up with a Navy specialty which uses your desire to exercise mathematics,....
THAT outcome will mostly be up to your ability to perceive an opportunity, your willingness to persevere, and your adaptability when conforming to what the Navy specifies for that fringe outcome,...
AND,....some probabilistic serendipity,...
almost forgot,...(sic) for beercort,....