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    The Road To Becoming A Navy SEAL Officer

    I’m going to take a stab at where the miscommunications may have arisen. I’m not a SEAL, just a wife of one who’s been at it for a long time. We have a mini-fridge stocked with beer in our back yard, so I’ll admit that most of my observations will be based on discussions that have occurred...
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    NROTC Disciplined

    Maybe someone in the Navy will chime in here, but Captain’s MAST is pretty serious stuff. To my knowledge it is preceded by an XOI (XO investigation). Was your daughter’s meeting an XOI? Was she only threatened with loss of her command billet or did that happen already? Was MAST mentioned as...
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    NROTC Application Glitch

    My concern for this kid is that it won't be resolved unless he is proactive and calls Pensacola. He stated that he couldn't go on in his application. That's the problem with this error message for the NROTC application is that it doesn't give you an error message. The fact that he can't go on...
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    NROTC 2013 students / parents

    If he's already talked to his PO recuiter, then I suggest a call to the NROTC office in Pensacola to find out if his application is complete. A month is plenty of time to wait for the system to update. With one of our mids, we had a similar situation and the CPO told him to just be patient...
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    NROTC Application Glitch

    Yes. But then they would be looking for a combined composite. :eek: My kid answered as you suggest but got an error message. Clearly this is why there was a backlog of students with the same issue. No matter how he got to this point, if he can't progress in his application he needs to get it...
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    2013 NROTC transfer applicant! Someone help!

    For our kids the NROTC application opened up @ April 1 and closed on January 31. They must have opened it in March this year for him to have started an application. Between February and the opening of the new scholarship application year, there was no option for starting an application...
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    NROTC Application Glitch

    That wasn't the case with my mid. The composite score brought up the error. She was so used to giving the composite score that she thought composite and combined were the same thing. It could have easily changed in the past few months and they are asking for something different this year than...
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    NROTC Application Glitch

    One of my mids had that same issue. Once the score was entered incorrectly the website would not allow her to correct the score. She was able to log in fine and enter her application but she could not get beyond that page. She started with her recruiter but in the end it took communication with...
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    A confession to make ...

    I don’t know what you mean by this. Who’s contrarian view-Augustine’s or his adversaries? Contrarian to what—denial of free will? Which are Augustine’s writings on the denial of free will? Are you talking a complete work on the denial of free will or an excerpt? A letter he wrote or the full...
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    A confession to make ...

    I disagree that St. Augustine taught that there is no free will. In fact he taught quite clearly and emphatically that free will exists. He was a professor of rhetoric so clearly it would be pretty easy to find quotes that would seem to prove the opposite of his point. That’s often how rhetoric...
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    Space A Flights

    ROTC mids are clearly eligible since they can use it for summer training. But do they still have to fall within the Air Transportation Eligibility requirements for the purpose of their travel? I know for dependents, we have eligibility but there are limitations beyond what are in the broad...
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    Space A Flights

    I definitely agree with that. We've used it a couple times for some very awesome family trips but only overseas and never since 9/11. I'd rather buy a flight and have a flight home. However, I'm not 20 years old with 6 weeks off for Winter break or 2 months off in the summer. That colors my...
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    NROTC 2013 students / parents

    I think that information on school choice is on topic for the original post. School choice matters now for both parents and students because they are in the midst of preparing applications. It's something that can be researched now while in waiting mode and put into action now in college...
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    Space A Flights

    I thought ROTC students could only fly Space A while on training. Can they do it for pleasure travel?
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    NROTC 2013 students / parents

    Great points, dunninla. Notre Dame is another that fills up very early in the process. Many students put that as number 1 because they hope that having a scholarship to that unit will help in admissions. In reality, the Notre Dame Unit gets filled early and many scholarship recipients have...
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