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ELI5: What determines the ranking or position of a collegiate level football game (i.e. Army vs. Navy) versus a service member that does a job assigned by the government?

I love the fact that the branches of military have a respected FBS team, but how exactly do you get to play football and not serve what you were assigned to do when sworn into duty?  What happens if an NFL team wants to recruit you to play professionally?
gpt
All the members on the service academies football team will go into active duty in the miliatry, just like every other student at the school.

Some exceptions are made on a case by case basis for those who are pursuing being a professional athlete, and the military will try to accommodate that by allowing a student to be in the reserves, or serve primarily during the off season, or other ways, but its always a case by case decision and can vary a lot.