USNA Class of 2026 Appointee Ready Room

While you are all busy with your To Do lists for USNA and wrapping up wherever you are now, enjoy the video below of the Blues departing Winter Training back to NAS Pensacola, getting geared up for the show season. You will get to see them every Commissioning Week when they do the show right in front of the Yard, show midpoint the Severn River. In fact, they usually do a practice show one day, same routine, same time, as “real show” the next day. Your breastbones will vibrate with the sound of freedom for 2 days in a row.

 
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Appointees, have you received your PTR yet? If not, the feeling you’ll get when the PTR arrives will be the same as every officer receiving their PCS orders. There is excitement, anticipation, and paperwork.

Here are some suggestions:

For the appointee: Get organized. Not only for I-Day but for your remaining days at home. Ever used a Julian calendar? I’ve included one here with I-day circled. As of 29 April, I-Day will be 62 days away.
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The PTR is your first foray into Navy paperwork. There is a saying that the military runs on paperwork, so here is my pitch from the administrative side. With all the attachments contained in the PTR, consider downloading them to a flash drive and then print them at FedEX or Office Depot. You’ll run the home printer dry if you print everything. Read and follow instructions. If instructed to print your name, then print! Let Mom and Dad have a gander at the pay charts, your Mid Store Issued gear (if included), and all the other documents. They will find them interesting and know that you are being well taken care of.

Make sure you get your SSN correct on all the forms. It takes forever to correct an erroneous SSN. Be careful when filling out your supplemental medical data form. Double check your no/yes responses. A long-ago medical form asked, “Do you have vision in both eyes?” There were some embarrassed appointees when the corpsman handed back the paper to those that checked “no.” Also, make a copy of the immunization record form. Submit your paperwork correctly and on time.

For DM and DD: When your plebe to be receives the PTR email, play it cool. Let them peruse all the attachments. I guarantee you they will have some questions for you. You may hear, "I didn't know that", once or twice from them. If they ask you to make copies of the attachments at FedEx, try and do it together then stop off at Mickey D’s or Baskin Robbins for some ice cream. Time is running short for the simple pleasures. Where has April gone?
 
DS has not been able to get into his portal for the last couple of weeks. Is anyone else experience issues getting into their portal? Thanks!!
 
DS has not been able to get into his portal for the last couple of weeks. Is anyone else experience issues getting into their portal? Thanks!!
Portal has been working for me and others whom I have been in touch with via group chats
 
Appointees, have you received your PTR yet? If not, the feeling you’ll get when the PTR arrives will be the same as every officer receiving their PCS orders. There is excitement, anticipation, and paperwork.

Here are some suggestions:

For the appointee: Get organized. Not only for I-Day but for your remaining days at home. Ever used a Julian calendar? I’ve included one here with I-day circled. As of 29 April, I-Day will be 62 days away.
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The PTR is your first foray into Navy paperwork. There is a saying that the military runs on paperwork, so here is my pitch from the administrative side. With all the attachments contained in the PTR, consider downloading them to a flash drive and then print them at FedEX or Office Depot. You’ll run the home printer dry if you print everything. Read and follow instructions. If instructed to print your name, then print! Let Mom and Dad have a gander at the pay charts, your Mid Store Issued gear (if included), and all the other documents. They will find them interesting and know that you are being well taken care of.

Make sure you get your SSN correct on all the forms. It takes forever to correct an erroneous SSN. Be careful when filling out your supplemental medical data form. Double check your no/yes responses. A long-ago medical form asked, “Do you have vision in both eyes?” There were some embarrassed appointees when the corpsman handed back the paper to those that checked “no.” Also, make a copy of the immunization record form. Submit your paperwork correctly and on time.

For DM and DD: When your plebe to be receives the PTR email, play it cool. Let them peruse all the attachments. I guarantee you they will have some questions for you. You may hear, "I didn't know that", once or twice from them. If they ask you to make copies of the attachments at FedEx, try and do it together then stop off at Mickey D’s or Baskin Robbins for some ice cream. Time is running short for the simple pleasures. Where has April gone?

No PTR yet but I have advanced from checking the USNA site, portal, and my email to just looking up "USNA PTR" on Google. Right now, USNA has their PTR webpage set so the search blurb presented shows when the page was last updated and for the past couple weeks it has been stuck on "Updated Wed Apr 20 14:39:10 EDT 2022."

So when that changes, I know something good is in store.
 
No PTR yet but I have advanced from checking the USNA site, portal, and my email to just looking up "USNA PTR" on Google. Right now, USNA has their PTR webpage set so the search blurb presented shows when the page was last updated and for the past couple weeks it has been stuck on "Updated Wed Apr 20 14:39:10 EDT 2022."

So when that changes, I know something good is in store.
Why not use one of the many tools that will monitor a webpage for updates and alert you?
 
Portal has been working for me and others whom I have been in touch with via group chats
Thanks for the reply. Not sure why he is having the difficulty accessing the portal but we'll keep trying to get it resolved! :)
 
Quick question regarding parents weekend. How close to the yard or downtown Annapolis should we plan on staying? Trying to figure out hotel or Airbnb/VRBO and what radius I should be looking at.
 
Quick question regarding parents weekend. How close to the yard or downtown Annapolis should we plan on staying? Trying to figure out hotel or Airbnb/VRBO and what radius I should be looking at.
Newbie here (I have a c/o 2026 kid), but what I've read is that the Plebe wants to really just chill and kind be out of sight of detailers. They have to be in uniform, so better to not be seen. But they do have curfew every night so you have to get them back to the yard. I got a place about 10 minutes away, tucked away in some neighborhood. DS doesn't have to leave the house during the day if he doesn't want to. We don't have anything planned, just waiting to see what he is up for.
 
Quick question regarding parents weekend. How close to the yard or downtown Annapolis should we plan on staying? Trying to figure out hotel or Airbnb/VRBO and what radius I should be looking at.
Newbie here (I have a c/o 2026 kid), but what I've read is that the Plebe wants to really just chill and kind be out of sight of detailers. They have to be in uniform, so better to not be seen. But they do have curfew every night so you have to get them back to the yard. I got a place about 10 minutes away, tucked away in some neighborhood. DS doesn't have to leave the house during the day if he doesn't want to. We don't have anything planned, just waiting to see what he is up for.

Annapolis can be rather pricey during PPW, graduation and the like. I found staying at the Comfort Inn Conference Center in nearby Bowie to be very convenient. It’s about 15 miles away, 20 minutes from Annapolis. Heading back to Mother B, you just jump on Highway 50 near the hotel and head east. The rooms are nice and clean. There is a bar for Mom and Dad and a pool where your plebe can chillax. Breakfast is included. Ample parking and some nearby eateries make the Comfort Inn a nice jumping off point to do other things in the area.
 
Annapolis can be rather pricey during PPW, graduation and the like. I found staying at the Comfort Inn Conference Center in nearby Bowie to be very convenient. It’s about 15 miles away, 20 minutes from Annapolis. Heading back to Mother B, you just jump on Highway 50 near the hotel and head east. The rooms are nice and clean. There is a bar for Mom and Dad and a pool where your plebe can chillax. Breakfast is included. Ample parking and some nearby eateries make the Comfort Inn a nice jumping off point to do other things in the area.
Can give this an endorsement as well. It’s an updated older hotel, so if brand spanking new is your mojo, I would bypass this one. I personally like the older one. The walls are actually walls, so the noise level is better than some current builds. The breakfast is actually a hot one (biscuits and gravy, make your own pancakes, eggs, BACON 🥓!!), plus fresh fruit and yogurts, etc. VS cold packaged cheese danishes.

GREAT staff. Very good service. Read this in the reviews, and woukd have to agree that they take pride in this.

And agree with the commute. Far enough to be away and cheaper, yet a close and easy commute.
 
Does anyone know whether or not you have to take the calculus AB/BC placement exams to validate the course even if you have a 4 or 5 on the AP Calculus exam? The notes on the blackboard don't make it clear whether you do or do not. Thank you to anyone who can clarify!
 
All AP Calc test scores supersede the ABS validation tests, so if you already have a 4 or 5 on the AP Calc exam I don't think you would have to take the test, although that's just how I understand it. I don't really see why they would make you take the placement test if you already can validate the course, but I'd definitely confirm with someone in Admissions
 
All AP Calc test scores supersede the ABS validation tests, so if you already have a 4 or 5 on the AP Calc exam I don't think you would have to take the test, although that's just how I understand it. I don't really see why they would make you take the placement test if you already can validate the course, but I'd definitely confirm with someone in Admissions
Thank you!
 
All AP Calc test scores supersede the ABS validation tests, so if you already have a 4 or 5 on the AP Calc exam I don't think you would have to take the test, although that's just how I understand it. I don't really see why they would make you take the placement test if you already can validate the course, but I'd definitely confirm with someone in Admissions
You may want to double check that. I believe that USNA doesn't recognize AP exam text results. You will still have to take their placement exam during Plebe summer to possibly place out of any classes.
 
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