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Thanks it is! I'd totally recommend waiting to buy, especially if you already have boots and you know they're comfortable. The less stuff you have to keep track of during basic the better

Last year I believe everyone got the issued boots, no matter how many they brought. But then again that was last year

Congrats appointees! quarter here. I have the Danner Tachyons, wore them all of basic and the academic year and they still feel like running shoes. Never heard anyone complain about their Danners either. Treads are starting to wear down a bit but that's about it. My roommate had the Oakleys, no...

The Princeton Review book really helped me (https://amzn.to/3xTIz9q), I went from a 27 in math to 33 (35 overall). Basically their philosophy is that the only thing the ACT measures is how well you take the ACT, so rather than focus solely on practicing math skills they teach you how to guess...

NUM Username DD/DS/Self LOA Offer Date Accept/Decline State Noms Appt Type 1 2025 hopeful DD No 28-Oct-20 Accepted ?? Presidential Direct 2 tjn2021 Self No 12-Nov-20 Accepted FL Congressional, Presidential Direct 3 T-37IP DS Yes 18-Nov-20 Accepted PA Presidential Direct 4 yellowfisherman...

bdude/self/No LOA/Mar 17/Will Accept/CA/Congressional/direct Tried to update the table, but I couldn't figure how to make it not double space. Probably something weird with my computer

If we're betting I'll take Tuesday, 11:00 est

I think the candidate booklet says letters of non-selection are sent by April 21st

I'm in the same boat with height, I'm 6'4". My dad and I built this one for I think about $40 for the wood and steel pipe. I set the bar height to 8 feet and it works great.

A USAFA nomination from Nunes (CA-22) came in the mail today! I'm an alternate nominee, but that's a whole lot better than no nom.

I'm getting the same message

Didn't know that was a thing! I wish CA22 published those numbers

That's awesome! Congrats!

Thanks for sharing this!