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At almost two-and-a-half years long, the Naval Officers Course is one of the most intensive programs in the IDF. At the end of the course, each graduate receives the rank of lieutenant junior grade – a rank at which one is responsible for commanding naval vessels – as well as a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Haifa. Graduates are committed to 61 months of additional military service.The program in the US Navel Academy is four years long, and graduates of the course receive a bachelor of science degree and a commission as ensigns in the navy or as second lieutenants in the Marine Corps. Naval Academy graduates are committed to at least five years in the navy or Marine Corps.More than a thousand students graduated from the Naval Academy this year. The US Navel Academy has similar agreements with several other countries, including Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Singapore and Spain. According to the Capital Gazette, US Navel Academy is in talks to formalize additional agreements with Australia and Italy in the near future.The two navies are close partners, and later this month Israel will participate – for the first time – in the biennial Rim of the Pacific multinational naval exercise, led by the US Third Fleet, off of the coast of Hawaii and Southern California.RIMPAC, the world’s largest international maritime exercise, will be held from June 27 to August 2 and will see the participation of 26 nations, 47 surface ships, five submarines, 18 national land forces, and more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel.Israel will be joining other first-time participants Brazil, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.Other countries participating in RIMPAC 2018 are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom.