Recent content by 2020Vision

Update: My son has found out that there is no waiver for Navy pilot, but there is a one-point waiver for Marine pilot, which would put him within the Marine pilot ASTB requirements. He has reached out to the Marine aviation mentor to see if that is an option for him. He has surpassed the...

On Friday, many of the 2/c will bring parents to lunch in King Hall. For a lot of them, it will be their first time eating there, because their mids wanted to skip King Hall and get the heck outta Dodge 2 years back on PPW. As a plebe, it is your job to entertain them with "typical" plebe...

Thanks for your reply. I've heard of the scenario you said your friend experienced. Word on the street is that a similar situation will exist this year for Marine pilot, based on service selection interest surveys to this point. The same surveys also point to a shortage of mids requesting Navy...

Thanks, Anguswarrior112. My son has said he would definitely take an NFO assignment. He was just hoping to get pilot. He said he plans to talk with leadership since his score was so close -- and actually would have earned him a pilot slot prior to 2019. So, based on your reply, that sounds like...

My son is class of 2020, and his third try at the ASTB yielded scores of 6-5-6. The current pilot minimum is 5-6-6, I believe. Has anyone ever heard of mids applying for some sort of waiver to be allowed to service select Navy pilot if their ASTB scores don’t quite hit the mark?

My son had made no contact with USNA and somehow received a CVW invite fall of his junior year of high school. He wasn't interested - wanted to go to USAFA - but went to the CVW at my urging. He is now a 2/c at Annapolis. The CVW was the catalyst. (BTW: he applied to NASS and didn't get in, nor...

Keep in mind that NASS is primarily a marketing tool for USNA and a summer training opportunity for upperclass mids. Your acceptance or denial has virtually no bearing on your opportunity to secure an appointment to USNA. My son went to a CVW early in his junior year of high school, and very...

Mids who serve as detailers for NASS do so as part of their summer training. As leaders-in-training, they're learning to evaluate the performance of those who serve under them and to document that performance. Therefore, much of the purpose for NASS is to provide these mids with an opportunity...

If you're active or retired military, as your avatar suggests, you can go to the NEX near USNA before I-Day and pick up a USNA Dad mug and a whole host of other USNA stuff. You'll avoid the lines at the Crack House - er... I mean the Mid Store.

A few years ago, my son was devastated when he didn't get into NASS, even though he'd been invited out of the blue to a CVW early in his junior year of high school. (On the other hand, he was invited to USAFA SS, which hosts far fewer candidates and is much more selective.) Fast forward to...

Keep in mind that at a university, undergrads take a back seat, when it comes to doing research and gaining access to lab spaces. Grad students and professors take priority. However, at USNA, there are no grad students, so the amazing lab facilities there (think world's 2nd largest water tank...

If the OPs objective after Five-and-Dive is to be a hands-on engineer, I'd have to agree he could be somewhat disadvantaged in the job market. USNA doesn't teach engineering in the same way that schools like MIT and GT do. USNA is training, first and foremost, leaders. That said, my husband's...

On behalf of my son (USNA c/o 2020), I'd like to also thank tacticalnuke and all the others who have made - and continue to make - this forum possible. My son relied heavily on information gleaned from this site during his application process, and he often said he might not have made it without...

Here's the link to USNA's info on CVWs. Included is the phone number for reaching your admissions counselor, along with lots of other good gouge. https://www.usna.edu/CVW/index.php

One challenge: My son is something of an introvert -- needs "alone" time to recharge his batteries. In the Brigade, this is often hard to come by.