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EOD/SEAL Mom is offering sound advice. Plebe Year experiences are intended to begin the process of building your DD into a future officer entering the fleet, which by design separates her from prior home support, and begins building her reliance upon peers in your stead. Although maybe not...

The Class of 2018, due to the combination of it being a Congressional redistricting year, an unusually high acceptance rate from MOC slates, and too many early early appointment offers before many MOC slates were submitted, forming a perfect storm, it resulted in few slots opening after April...

As a parent of a 3C appointed from the waitlist, congrats! It means USNA wants you; they just need a slot to open as other candidates make their acceptance decisions on or before the April 15th deadline. The size of the list is set based upon the probable number of offered appointments offwred...

Great Question With the resignation of Rep. Mel Watt to serve as the Director of FHFA, the seat is now vacant pending a special election in November. The problem is two fold. First, a candidate will be elected to complete the remainder of the 113th congress, and on another ballot question the...

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Here is a link to a forum thread explaining all of the many acronyms: http://www.serviceacademyforums.com/showthread.php?t=11568 So sorry to hear of your plight. I hope it works out for you.

The waitlist is moving... DS on the waitlist received his BFE. Although he had already changed course to attend his A-3 option (UC Berkeley, School of Engineering, Nuclear Engineering), he is predictably changing back and accepting the offer of appointment. Good luck to everyone...

All in the Numbers... Based upon prior posts and USNA published information: 1. The target starting population for the Class of 2018 is 1,175, a reduction of 25 positions from the Class of 2017. 2. USNA transmitted 1,300 offers of appointment to candidates for the Class of 2018. 3. The...

Baez, gavigane14...thanks for sharing the great news...you have made my day!

gavigain14...you just made my day! Great news...either way, prep or direct, the Navy is better off having you!

From the horses mouth...so to speak. just to kick some more dust...just for sport...read the opinion of the navy and General Accounting Office regarding Principal Nomination appointments. What they write is: "Offers of appointment are awarded to the best-qualified candidates as evaluated by...

Only two opinions matter. I don't believe it was intended, but it came across that people are assigning dishonorable intentions to MOC's involved. So, I think we should clarify that neither the MOC's involved nor the Academy is acting from any motive other than the interest of the Navy. There...

Well, he must believe what he is saying, but that may only be further evidence of the problem. Since the law, congressional publications, and naval publications are unequivocal that Principal Nomination, if 3Q'd, are mandatory appointments, then either this person is only one among many academy...

I do know that the two slate scenario my MOC submitted at USNA was similarly repeated at USMA. USMA appointed the Principal Nom first, then later appointed an unranked nominee from the second slate.

I too thought this might be a factor (involving a complex combination of redistricting, EAP-LOA'S, RA's ,etc), but then I learned that my DS Representative had two vacancies this year. For the first one, he submitted DS a Principal Nominee, with 9 unranked competitive alternates. He expressed...