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I spoke with the defense attorney retained by USAA to represent our son. He fully appreciates and understands the tight timeline and what's at stake WRT our son's appointment. He already filed a response with the court with a general denial, submitted an interrogatory request for production of...

Korab - we're in Ohio (a few miles north of Dayton). The law firm that the plaintiff hired is a large personal injury firm with 20 offices across the state. As I understand it, USAA has a legal department, separate from the adjuster. The legal department secured an outside defense firm. The...

Thank you! FWIW, we're in Ohio.

Correct... I see the biggest issue being that he was named as a defendant. It doesn't matter that it is a civil pain and suffering case brought forward by a large personal injury firm known for chasing money for accident victims (and themselves), or that the case will likely be settled out of...

The issue is two-fold, not just a matter of potentially appearing in Court. Many times these civil cases are settled out of court. If it does go to court, and if USAFA would still clear him for inprocessing, we would petition the court to delay the appearance to a time that would work better...

In Feb 2021, 19 days after DS got his driver license, he had an accident that totaled his car and the other vehicle. The accident caused a minor fracture for the other driver. The Court gave DS a reduced, non-moving violation and fine, and ordered a defensive driving class. He fully complied...

There's the tourist passport, as well as an official passport, and a diplomatic passport. As JohnMcLane said, not everyone in the military is issued an official passport. And very few, except for special duty reasons, have a diplomatic passport. It depends on the deployment or TDY location...

For those not currently in the Department of the Air Force, today the Secretary of the Air Force issued a rescission of the 3 September 2021 policy that formerly mandated all Department of the Air Force military members to have the COVID vaccination. This does not directly answer any of the...

DS was offered and accepted an appointment to USAFA today!!! So happy and proud of him! SAF Username For Date LOA Decision Nom Source Via State 1) T37ip DS 10-Nov-22 Unknown Undecided Presidential Direct 2) saapplicant232 Self 10-Nov-22 No LOA Undecided Presidential Direct 3)...

DS received a second nomination to USAFA in today's mail, this one from Sen Portman (R-OH)!! First one was from Rep Davidson. Are there any statistics on how to quantify how two nominations vs one may improve odds of receiving an offer of appointment?

Hopefully one of the ALOs on here can address the first part of your question. As to your last question regarding no reading score for your ACT, our DS asked the same question of the admissions team. For whatever reason, USAFA includes Math, Reading, and Writing for the SAT, and Math, English...

Last week, the Senate joined the House in passing the FY23 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which POTUS is expected to sign this week. The NDAA includes a provision requiring the Secretary of Defense to rescind the mandate that members of the Armed Forces be vaccinated against COVID-19...

DS received a nomination to USAFA from Rep Davidson (OH 8th District) today!! Don't know yet about Sen Brown or Sen Portman (their boards said they'll compare lists this month). Now more waiting for hopefully an appointment!

Has anyone received notification of nomination from Rep Davidson (OH District 8)? Just curious, as DS was told nomination decisions would be made in November. Crossing our fingers!

I thought so, too. But the first go-around on the CFA, which resulted in the Admissions office offering a second opportunity to retake, also showed as green even though it wasn't good. Maybe the first one wasn't a failure, but was on the line and that's why they wanted him to retake? So it...