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Last June there were bleachers set up and we were able to get shady seats an hour before ceremony. Agree on the chair / blanket for plebe to sit on afterwards. Ours was starving, thirsty, and worried about getting dirty. After ceremony, there are signs with letters along Stribling and plebes are...

Thanks as always for your good info. I’m glad to know there is a process. Thanks to Rose & company for organizing and to the Annapolis community for sponsoring our Mids.

Today was sponsor family meet & greet for plebes. Final plebe summer phone call immediately followed & DD reported she was one of 4 in her company that no sponsor came to meet. I assume all plebes who ask for a sponsor are assigned to someone.... Can anyone tell me how they connect if sponsors...

Mine “joined the Protestant choir because they don’t yell.” Main themes of letter: lots of sweating and yelling. Presumably also cleaning... definitely a new priority for her based on the dust bunnies I found in her room!

I sent my DD with some fill in the blank letters to encourage details in her correspondence - 1st one written July 1 arrived today :). In the “one thing that happened that I didn’t expect” blank she says “constantly dripping sweat like I have never sweated before.” This from a kid who spends...

Mine initially didn’t work either. I called USNA.com support who were very helpful once I got to the right person - Online Member Services Coordinator. Instead of using email address to log in (looked like I was logged in but no photo access) she told me to use my username - worked fine and I...

When we saw our DD on I-Day after the swearing in ceremony, she was struggling with the clownishly large glasses she was issued. Frames are so big they make her ears fold over and fall off every time she turns her head. Does anyone know if plebes ever have glasses remade? Allowed some type of...