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Service Academy Exchange Opportunities at the USNA

I'm joined by Matt Meltzer who is a class of 17 graduate from the United States Naval Academy and currently serves as a Surface Warfare Officer in the United States Navy. Matt is from New York City and was a political science major at the academy and in currently stationed in Hawaii.

Matt was a guest on one of our most popular episodes regarding The Daily Life of a Plebe.

In this episode, Matt takes us through the opportunities for USNA Midshipmen to spend a semester at the other service academies.  He shares how one applies, the interview process and once selected the logistics involved in spending a semester at another academy.

Matt spent the first semester of his 2/c year at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. 

He shares experiences of how Midshipmen are familiarized with a new academy environment, classes, athletics and compares and contrasts some of the cultural differences between the two institutions.

He even shares a great story of the pranks that you can fall victim to as a Midshipman at another service academy.

It's an informative and casual episode. It provides a sneak-peek into the Coast Guard Academy and the opportunity a Midshipman has to study at another military academy.

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The mission of Academy Insider is to guide, serve, and support Midshipmen, future Midshipmen, and their families.

Grant Vermeer your host is the person who started it all. He is the founder of Academy Insider and the host of The Academy Insider podcast. He was a recruited athlete which brought him to Annapolis where he was a four year member of the varsity basketball team. He was a cyber operations major and commissioned into the Cryptologic Warfare Community. He was stationed at Fort Meade and supported the Subsurface Direct Support mission.

He separated from the Navy in 2023 and now owns The Vermeer Group, a residential real estate company that matches service academy families with trusted real estate teams all across the country. Text (650) 282-1964 with any real estate questions.

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