Navy Financial Assistance Program

[elliejellybean]

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I like to stay atop of my life and keep a 7 year plan (so this is just a general inquiry) and I'm considering how I will pay back the debt I will accumulate in becoming an anesthesiologist. I came across this little snippet and it sounds too good to be true. 3-5 Years of active duty meaning I serve as a doctor in the military and not a soldier correct? Possibly being shipped off here and there and I have no say in the matter? Would there be any circumstance where I would have to act as a soldier and engage in combat? Lastly, the incentive is high so would it be same to assume the competition for spots like these are high as well? Could they tell me I have to be a PCP instead practicing anesthesia etc? Has anyone taken this route in these forms? Your thoughts

 

[j4pac]

There are currently 428 posts on the topic of FAP. One is included in the stickies. I would suggest using the forums "search" function which is in the topic right corner of your screen and looks like a magnifying glass.

 

[pgg]

Most recent thread on FAP -

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/fap.1186990/


If you enter via FAP, it's in your particular specialty. Odds of deployment are high. Odds of deploying to an area where combat is occurring is not especially high lately, but during the 2003-2013 Iraq/Afghan wars it was high. Odds of personally engaging in combat in that era were very low for GMOs, and near zero for non-GMOs. FAP accessions are not GMOs.

 

[DeadCactus]

You pay it off by working a job for financial gain and transferring that financial gain to the institution to which you are indebted. That's how debt works. It's not magic. Why are people are so excited about an organization offering to cut them out as the middleman in their own financial situation in exchange for a loss of personal freedom and months away from their families and personal lives? I need to start a business where I offer to punch people in the nuts in exchange for taking 25% of their salary and investing 20% in an index fund for them while keeping the other 5%. Apparently people would beat path to my door because the fear of basic financial responsibility is too much for them...