Congressman Bennie G. Thompson Mississippi Second Congressional District 2023 MILITARY Academy Day

Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (MS-02) to host Mississippi Second Congressional District Academy Day in conjunction with his Annual College & Career Fair on Friday, October 6, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on the campus of Mississippi Delta Community College in the J.T. Hall Coliseum, Hwy 3 & Cherry Street, Moorhead, MS 38761.

Interested students, parents, and JROTC instructors are encouraged to come out and meet representatives from the five service academies to learn first-hand what it takes to be enrolled at a service academy. There will be representatives from the Military (West Point), Naval, Air Force, Merchant Marine, and Coast Guard Academy. The United States Service Academies offers students a tuition free, four-year undergraduate education. Upon graduation, service academy graduates are commissioned as officers in the active or reserve components of the armed services for a minimum of five years.

If you have questions about the upcoming October 6th Academy Day, please call: Shander Gund in my Mound Bayou office at 1-662-741-9003. 

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