The honor of attending a Service Academy comes with the obligation and commitment to serve in the military for a minimum of five years upon graduation.
Members of Congress may nominate candidates for appointment to four of the five U.S. service academies: U.S. Military Academy (USMA), West Point, NY; the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), Annapolis, MD; the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), Colorado Springs, CO; and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), Kings Point, NY. The fifth service academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), New London, CT, does not require a congressional nomination for appointment.
Representative Greene may nominate up to ten individuals for each vacant academy slot allotted to our district.
The candidate applications are reviewed by Congresswoman Greene’s highly qualified academy selection board.
Several of these board members are Service Academy graduates. All board members served as high ranking officers in the U S Military.
Once the applications are reviewed, the board decides which candidates they wish to interview in person (Class of 2025 were interviewed by Zoom). Once the interviews are complete, the board recommends to the Congresswoman those candidates that they would like to nominate.
Once the Congresswoman approves, a slate with the top 10 candidates are sent to each Academy. At that point, the Academy chooses one candidate from our slate to offer an appointment.
