Gently Used and Formerly Loved USNA Gear for Sale!

NTWLF ONE

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FOR SALE! 34 year collection of USNA gear, including polo shirts, jackets, foam fingers, cowbells and even an authentic “B Robe”. Size: Adult Size Men’s MED.

18 year collection of boys USNA clothing, including jumpers, bibs, t-shirts, Navy Football Jerseys, Soccer and Baseball camp t-shirts. Also included a complete set of Naval Academy Summer Seminar (NASS) gear! Size: Infant to Adult Men’s LG.

Sold separately: A complete set of MIDN shoulder boards and collar devices. An ideal gift for a USNA graduate and 30 year career Naval Officer to pass on to his son.

Regular sale closes on 1 May 2016. All gear remaining will be disposed of properly using the TWE as kindling…
 
Been there. . .

What and where is Plan B?
 
I'm sorry man.
I can't help but point out how far ahead your kid is. He stood ready to commit to a 9 year obligation at the age of 18! He voluntarily set about an admissions process that required extensive paper work, physicals, and high pressure face to face interviews. He entered into an evaluation process that extended beyond grades and ACT scores.... to athletics, character and commitment. In that process he Won a nomination to the USNA. He put heart and soul on the line, where most kids were content to just submit scores and a writing sample to colleges they like. Everyone hears "No's" along the way, but I'd bank on any kid with the stuff to take a shot at: USNA, USAFA, USMA, USCGA.

Appointees, TWE, Wait listed..........Everybody who has a kid with the guts and the record to get past the nomination process has a WINNER on their hand's.

On to plan B ------- He will kick as*!---------- If I know it, I'm sure you do too. "We do but turn another page"

 
My heart goes out to you and your family. Always thought there should be some bonus for a legacy.
 
Those of us who were disappointed by TWEs can't even come close to this. So sorry...

Any chance he'll give it some time and reapply next year? Seems like too special a legacy to let go without another try...
 
I don't think being a "legacy" means anything anymore. We can get our DD or DS a presidential nomination just like 800+ other candidates who has a parent who also qualifies. And being a grad itself doesn't do it, must also be active or retired like anyone else.

Maybe back in the day legacy carried some weight in the admissions process but those days are long gone. I think the fact that the current senior admissions officer is not a USNA alum, she was ROTC, is an indicator of what legacy status means to USNA leadership and USNA admissions.
 
@Trigger - I feel for OP as well, although as @Just Dad said, the kid is far ahead of his peers and will likely be successful wherever he lands.

Regardless, surely you didn't mean to disparage a Naval officer for graduating from *gasp* ROTC instead of USNA? Or mean to imply that the USNA should only hire grads? Because that's what it sounded like.
 
Why should USNA owe you, or any other grad, anything?

I get being disappointed but come on.
 
Please stop being harsh, I'm sure letting go of the anguish is all that was done here, also it was done on a board that she/he thought would understand.
No one owes us in life, but when you pay your dues all your life it's normal to think in the end it will lead to your dreams and goals. The pain of disappointment is real no one here should be adding to it.
 
Please stop being harsh, I'm sure letting go of the anguish is all that was done here, also it was done on a board that she/he thought would understand.
No one owes us in life, but when you pay your dues all your life it's normal to think in the end it will lead to your dreams and goals. The pain of disappointment is real no one here should be adding to it.

Thank you, and well said.
 
NTWLF,

USNA's loss is his plan B college's gain, as well as their ROTC detachment. Not disparage USNA and their grads, but remember that unlike decades ago, many flag officers came from the ROTC world...one quickly comes to mind....Colin Powell.
Obtw I thought your post was hysterical.

@Trigger, I am with JCC. You may have not intended to make it appear that you look down on ROTC, but that was an ouch. Plus, the fact is appointments are based on a WCS and has very little to do with that ROTC commissioned admissions officer...either the candidates score (SAT, cgpa, CFA, , etc) was high enough to beat the other 9 on the slate or it wasn't.
 
Wow. Your DSs TWE is so surprising given your strong career and family history. DD also received TWE this am. I'm a career Naval Officer too but not USNA grad. Best of luck for Plan B!
 
No one owes us in life, but when you pay your dues all your life it's normal to think in the end it will lead to your dreams and goals.

The end is not here. Note my tag line...there is no such thing as an ending, it is just a place where you leave the story.

My kid was an AF brat, son of an O5 ROTC grad. He intentionally chose the ROTC scholarship over USAFA. I am proud to say he loved his college, his detachment, and had no regrets. He is now an O2 pilot, which was his true dream and goal.

If his true dream is to attend USNA than he still has @5 more years before that ends.

NTWLF,
As a career officer I am sure you know what it takes to be a great officer, and if you think about it, your DS got the 1st lesson...what do you do when the mission plan falls apart? You don't give up, you move onto the contingency plan.

You know this, and it sucks to go to the contingency, BUT that doesn't mean the mission's goal will not be met. In this case was the goal to commission Navy or only to get the BFE. I hope it was the first and not the latter. However, either answer still leaves you at the mission is still viable, because everyone here will tell you that SAs love reapplicants.
~ In VA, when Eric Cantor was in office he was known to give principals, and if there was a reapplicant on the slate they were going to get it over the 1st time applicant.
 
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The end is not here. Note my tag line...there is no such thing as an ending, it is just a place where you leave the story.

My kid was an AF brat, son of an O5 ROTC grad. He intentionally chose the ROTC scholarship over USAFA. I am proud to say he loved his college, his detachment, and had no regrets. He is now an O2 pilot, which was his true dream and goal.
I agree, when I used the word end there, it meant the end of that particular dream, but I am so glad you pointed it out because in the mist of that disappointment it can feel like the end, however i love your signature: There is no such thing as an ending, it is just a place where you leave the story.
 
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