Dear USF Engineering Student

My name is LT xxxx xxxx, and I am the Navy's Engineering Programs Officer in Tampa, FL. I recently received your name as a potential candidate for the United States Navy Nuclear Engineering Scholarship Program. Please give me a few seconds of your time so that I can explain a little bit about our incredible opportunities in this letter. Hopefully, you will be interested enough to meet with me to further discuss the details on how this program can benefit you.

First of all, the money!

• $10,000 signing bonus (plus $2,000 after completion of training)
• $2,500 every month until you graduate (including summers!)

The money is yours to spend as you wish. Also, you and your spouse and children (if you have them) will receive free medical and dental care. You will also be eligible to enroll in the GI Bill that will pay $23,500 towards graduate school tuition and expenses. Let me emphasize that this is NOT ROTC! There are no uniform, drill, or haircut requirements and you will not be required to leave USF until after you graduate. The Nuclear Power Program is strictly professional and the only thing for which you are responsible is going to school and finishing your degree, something you are already planning to do.

What if your degree is not Nuclear Engineering? No problem. The Navy is looking for all types of engineering majors that have a strong academic and technical background. The Navy will teach you the specifics during a year of Nuclear Engineering Training after you graduate from college. This training will broaden your technical abilities as an engineer and more than prepare you to sit for the EIT or PE exam if you choose to do so.

Please do not get this opportunity confused with an enlisted sailor program. You are going to be an OFFICER, the person in charge of those enlisted sailors and the person in charge of running a nuclear power plant. Can you imagine how much more impressive your resume will look after a tour managing 80-100 people and a nuclear power plant versus 4 years of tapping a keyboard in a cubicle somewhere? This is evidenced by the overwhelming number of nuclear trained officers who go on to big-time Engineering, MBA, Medicine, and Law programs or jump directly into senior leadership positions in Industry. Nuclear trained officers are an elite corps of technically trained leaders and you will be in demand after your first tour of duty.

I realize the prospects of Naval service can seem intimidating. There are many myths and rumors about Navy life: you have to live on a ship, you sign your life away to the government, or you have to stay out at sea for years. All of these myths are not true. I encourage you to do the research yourself. Get the facts. I think you will plainly see what an incredible opportunity the Nuclear Power Program can be for your future. Don't waste your life sitting in a cubicle! Do something exciting with it! Every month you wait is $2,500 worth of lost opportunity!

Signed,

LT xxxx xxxx

Certainly worth a phone call don't you think?