Is the Naval Academy a short cut or quicker route to being a commercial pilot?
I have been thinking about the navy to become a commercial airline pilot afterwards.
It might be, call them up and ask them about it
If you consider 4 years at the academy and then 10 years required on active duty to be a "shortcut", then yes, because by then you'll be about 32-34 years old which is the average age that civilian trained pilots have the competitive experience to move up from the commuter airlines into the majors. The "shortcut" would be in being able to avoid all the low paid civilian "time building" experience needed to get a major airline job. After putting your 14 years in you'd have an excellent chance of being hired straight into a major airline - assuming that the economy hasn't tanked and they are hiring when you become eligible. Of course all this assumes that you can qualify for pilot training. Being accepted at the academy is no guarantee of that and it's one of the most competitive jobs in the military you could go after. Only a handful of every thousand applicants succeed in becoming naval aviators.
You enlist in the military for no other reason than to serve your country, not to take shortcuts to your airline career.
First, you don't just apply for admission to one of five United States service academies (bet you didn't know there are five of them!) like you apply to the State U. You get appointed, no easy task in itself. Then you must graduate in four years with high enough standing in your class to be selected for aviation training.
After that you serve in whatever capacity the Navy deems necessary for at least a year, until a slot in the training class opens up. Then you have about a year and a half of flight training. When you graduate you are committed to ten years of active duty.
Somewhere along the line you will wander if the free flying lessons are really worth all the crawling through the mud, forced marches, and having $100,000 education shoved up your posterior one nickel at a time.
Even if you could manage to be accepted into the US Naval Academy, there's no GUARANTEE that you would be trained as a pilot. Then, there's this little thing called a 10-YEAR ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE COMMITMENT for those people who ARE selected to become Navy pilots.
The Naval Academy is no guarantee of getting to be a pilot
Not for sure what it is today but when I was in only about 18% if each graduating class got flight school
Plus let's not forget the 4 years at the academy plus the 10 years required active duty for flight training
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