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Trump Orders Rule Allowing Military Academy Grads To Defer Service To Play Pro Sports [View all]
Source: NPR
Trump Orders Rule Allowing Military Academy Grads To Defer Service To Play Pro Sports
June 26, 20198:57 PM ET
BOBBY ALLYN
President Trump is ordering the Pentagon to rewrite a rule allowing athletes to delay mandatory active service in order to play professional sports directly upon graduation.
"These student-athletes should be able to defer their military service obligations until they have completed their professional sports careers," Trump wrote in a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday.
Under existing Department of Defense policy, those enrolled in military academies cannot play sports before serving at least two years in the armed forces.
That requirement, Trump wrote in his memo, deprives some student athletes of "a short window" they have to take advantage of their athletic talents.
During the Obama administration, military academy athletes were able to go right into sports after graduating if they were granted reserve status. But last year, Trump's own Defense Department revoked that policy.
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June 26, 20198:57 PM ET
BOBBY ALLYN
President Trump is ordering the Pentagon to rewrite a rule allowing athletes to delay mandatory active service in order to play professional sports directly upon graduation.
"These student-athletes should be able to defer their military service obligations until they have completed their professional sports careers," Trump wrote in a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday.
Under existing Department of Defense policy, those enrolled in military academies cannot play sports before serving at least two years in the armed forces.
That requirement, Trump wrote in his memo, deprives some student athletes of "a short window" they have to take advantage of their athletic talents.
During the Obama administration, military academy athletes were able to go right into sports after graduating if they were granted reserve status. But last year, Trump's own Defense Department revoked that policy.
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/736437284/trump-orders-rule-allowing-military-academy-grads-to-defer-service-to-play-pro-s
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