I agree on that too. Many do make excuses to keep putting it off. My point is/was if your MoC slate doesn't close until 9/15 or 10/1 and the ast appointment board meet 10/15, Get you MoC essays in order to be the best during the summer. Submit those 8/15. Now all of those hours you worked on the essays for MoCs and college, plus filling the ROTC application out, you can use those hours training starting 8/15. By 9/7 if you have been training, the weather should be cooler and you can submit the CFA at that time and still meet the earliest boards.
We were mean parents when DS became a candidate. He was a lifeguard during the summer (40 hours a week). We forced him to run every a.m. before he went to work, regardless of the weather. He knew pull ups was his weakness. We purchased a pull up bar for his door. Everyone, including friends and girlfriend that everytime he exited his bedroom he had to do X amt of pull ups. Same for when he re-entered the room. Siblings and friends loved to tattle on him. Mom/Ms. Pima DS didn't do it! Each week the number went up. Within a month he went up to 15.
~ FWIW, we were hands off on everything else. We did not read his essays until after he hit the submit button. He had a great ALO, that met with all of his candidates monthly to review/edit essays.
Just my thinking is how you approach the whole application process.
The only thing I can say is that I have seen more candidates that completed their applications early getting appointments than candidates that didn't complete their applications later.
I have always been under the impression no MOC can be charged until all candidates are boarded, caveat principal. A candidate with an LOA can be appointed with any nomination. Thus, if a candidate that is on a slate where the MoC does not use principal, the MoC cannot be charged until everyone on the slate has a WCS?
Am I wrong?
If I am correct, candidate Smith has until the end of Feb. to submit their CFA. That means the other 9 on the slate can still be appointed via other ways, but the MoC cannot be charged because they are waiting for Smith to be boarded.
I am just asking if I misunderstood how the MoC charging works.
~ I always have felt posters confused appointment with charging.