On 9/4/2021 3:19 PM, Jim Vassilakos - jim.vassilakos at gmail.com (via
tml list) wrote:
> Back in Classic Traveller, graduation from the Naval Academy meant an
> automatic commission. In Mongoose, you have to roll. What do the wise
> denizens of the TML think of this?

I think it's something (Mongoose Traveller) written by someone who
doesn't understand how service academies work.  If you refuse a
commission from a US service academy you're responsible for six years of
service in compensation (IIRC, that's what it was when I was doing some
research for a book I was working on) or you must pay a rather sizable
tuition bill.  If they didn't want you as an officer, they'd fail you
and expel you from the academy.

I don't know how foreign service academies work, but I have trouble
believing that they'd train someone to be a commissioned officer and
then say, "Here, roll these dice and see if we decide to hire you"
(Metaphorically speaking).

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