Recent content by Magna Venari

You have to have 5 posts in order to use PM. My daughter was there last year for AIM, is there a chance he'd have pictures still?

My daughter will be SAP at MMI for the Coast Guard Academy. As a mother, I paid attention to reports of sexual assault and unwanted contact at the Service Academies over the years. As horrible as it is to say this, there are some professions where instances of unwanted contact and sexual...

Looks like I have some reading to do later. My godfather's best friend was a SEAL. He had a lot of fun teaching my cousins and I how to play "warrior" and we showed him all the ways that kids who aren't old enough for and ID card can get on base without Shore Patrol or the MP's being the...

I think some of these guys may have been in the first trial runs. This was 2015 - 2017 at Fort Belvoir. In time I'm sure they will find treatments that can be started while on active duty, but it can't come soon enough. If treatment was started as soon as symptoms started to present...

She is self Prep for the Coast Guard Academy, although she will consider the Merchant Marines Academy if she can not get into the Coast Guard Academy, but she will still commission as a Coast Guard Officer. She went out to sea on a schooner built in 1893 back in April and loved it. Her...

LOL! She is just a tomboy, just like I was. She's had 5 years of Young Marines, 4 years of Marine Corps JROTC, and she was the female Ironman at her school last school year. She is the kid who is usually prepared, or can improvise.

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I shot a message off to a friend who has been involved with Sea Cadets since high school, with his own children going through the program now. We shall see what he says.

Very interesting indeed. I need to so some more reading. Medical research is also exploring ketamine for PTSD. I know one Veteran who has undergone ketamine therapy. While it helped him, it didn't address the constant wired feeling he had. I've worked with a good number of Veterans...

I am following too. My daughter is already growling at me. She held up the list, pointed, and told me "If it's NOT on here, DON'T buy it!" She is NOT normal. She can fit a week's worth of civilian clothes in a 5.11 Rush 24, asks for knives, watches, weights, pull-up bars and tactical gear...

That is not acceptable. In Young Marines, adults do not wear Marine Corps uniforms unless they are currently enlisted or retired. They wear the rank they earned. In Marine Corps JROTC, instructors wear their uniforms and their last rank. I would have called him out on that. My father would...

My family will tell you I take it overboard. :rofl: At one point in time, I found screw drivers in the buffet. I asked why, my husband said so I didn't melt down if he used it and forgot to put it back. :rolleyes:

One of my daughter's friends from school did not get into the Air Force Academy, so she recommended MMI to him. He has been accepted. I think it's pretty cool that the HS Battalion XO and the Battalion Sergeant Major will be at the same school.

My daughter is also attending as a USCGA self prep. She is wait listed for the CGAS scholarship, so we are hoping she gets it.

My daughter was there last year too. What Company were you in?