Recent content by markbrown6

We went and used it as an excuse to visit a new part of the country, it was interesting and fun for us. We're a (previously) nonmilitary family and enjoy all opportunities for learning about different bases.

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missiles There is much change happening now in missiles. People's experiences even just a couple years ago might not be relevant to your experience. Good luck digging out the information. It's a gamble but most good things in life are.

STEM vs NONSTEM is everywhere http://blog.usni.org/2014/10/30/the-lost-intellectual-capital-of-a-stem-dominated-navy The answer is balance, always was.

Vandenberg website says they have dorms for single pipeline students. Does this mean dorm is available for everyone who goes to school there?

I know that when we have problems we cast about for places to hang our frustration. I'm a guidance counselor. I know many young people who went to small liberal arts colleges and found jobs and many who went to big universities, got job-related "practical" majors and who continue to struggle...

Nurses welcome Maybe that Colonel who gave such discouraging comments to the new nurses is disgruntled with the upheaval. Sounds bitter.

difficult times As a nonmilitary father going through this new stuff: the service academy applications, nomination process, ROTC applications, decision about type of scholarships, DODMERB, waiting for field training, waiting for AD, I have to say that it has been the worst, absolute worst...

quick decision We had similar decision years ago and I'm still mad about it. Son walked away from early offer and things worked out fine for him but I hate that they aren't given more time to decide.

sequesters not in stone The law creating the sequester (the Budget Control Act of 2011) lowers statutory caps on the spending authority of federal agencies. The money Congress gives each agency every year—appropriations—is technically not allowed to exceed those limits. Trouble is, Congress can...

putting downsize into perspective 25k from 332,854 active force equals approx. 6% overall cut. Is this right? thanks.

sickening

Great to see him enlist. At our AFROTC detachment contracting was a special event; an hour of paperwork for those returning from field training followed by group oath and individual oaths for parental photos. It was worth going to, we found it moving. About 1/3 parents were there.

Speaking just on anxiety: There's self-education and self-calming too. We had a family member achieve good enough results with this. There's an enormous amount of helpful info on the web, books and videos to help learn about, understand your body's reactivity and methods to self-calming: yoga...

cross town You need to check and be careful about this and register early. If you need to travel to other campus, later sections could fill up early leaving you with predawn travel twice a week.