Posted on 01/19/2007 6:17:18 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman
A Naval Academy midshipman who was expelled after he failed a running test will have to pay the Navy for the cost of his education.
Baltimore County resident Frank Shannon had asked that the 127-thousand dollar bill be waived. But a senior Navy official rejected his appeal this month, saying the academy provided Shannon with ample opportunity to meet its minimum fitness standards.
Shannon failed 12 of 18 fitness tests, and failed in a series of attempts to run a mile-and-a-half in 10 minutes and 30 seconds. In his final test, he was 20 seconds short. He was expelled just weeks before graduation.
Shannon is hoping a member of Congress will intervene. Aides to Senator Mikulski suggested he apply for readmission to the academy, but Shannon is currently married and would first have to divorce his wife before applying.
Your 100% correct....I know a little something about Naval Nuclear Power Program, and he was an enlistee trainer at Balston Spa at 19???? This guy ain't no dummy. He's probably in the top 5% of the country when it comes to academics.
He was prior service, 2 yrs enlisted, Nuc. side of the house.
It would be 12.5 feet per second or what, about four running strides a second?
Honestly, the marriage part is what baffles me the most. And I think you might be right . . . he just got fed up with the whole deal, and planned to live as a civilian, and then WHAM, he gets whalloped with a $127,000 tuition bill.
Perhaps he can take out a mortgage on it or something?
it is the regular navy standards but the 10m30s is the cutoff for an excellent/low grade in the 20-29 male category. i would assume (i know thats dangerous) that the academy is implementing anything lower than an excellent/low as a failure. i would talk to a JAG and see if i was being railroaded.
22Co, down on 2-0 overlooking T-Court. Right over the boilers, in the dead of winter I'd still be in my room in bare feet and PT gear. Guys that lived over the wind tunnels on 2-1 would be in double sweats.
When you consider that the $127,000 included room and board, that is not an unusual total bill. USNA is not some local community college where you live over your grandmas garage and eat mac and cheese.
Roger Staubach went into the Supply Corps because he was color blind. If memory serves, McCallum spent his time in the Civil Engineering corps.
This sounds like a total Screw Job on this guy. He is caught by Catch 22, 23, 24 ....100. Wow.
Read #28 before furthering your embarrassment.
I don't want to turn this thread in a new direction, but I will offer that our college/university system presents a bit of a monopoly in that the accrediting agencies have all the say in what is acceptable in terms of instructor's education as well as classroom material. I don't doubt that this accreditation extends to the classrooms of the Navel Academy.
Nah. The Democrats just cut the interest rate on student loans. He's better off getting one of those to pay them back.
Thanks for the illumination. This kid got screwed!
Ping!
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Yup, plus he MAJORED in Double E. Majored in it. For those who don't know, each and every single USNA midshipman has to take one solid year of electrical engineering during their second class year, and it is absolutely the academic proving ground of all proving grounds. Entire classes have been known to have failing averages going into the final, and to get a Delta in EE is to achieve a solid victory.
To choose EE as a major is insane. I daresay fewer than 5% of a class have the courage to major in EE.
Check out post 19
I like that suggestion - I was trying to come up with something along those lines.
Because he didn't meet the graduation requirements.
!!!!!! I was NAPS, too, and I was throwing 'em back by the end of my plebe year.
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