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My DS, 2nd Lt USMC, left this morning on his road trip to TBS in Quantico – his report date will coincide exactly with the one year anniversary of his commissioning. Similar to other PLCers, his PLC route to commissioning had him in Quantico for two other summers: the first one between his...

Today, Veterans' Day, I am feeling like the very humble and very protected and very grateful middle part of a sandwich - with both my parents having served during WWII on one side and several of my children either serving now or in training for their future service on my other side. I exist here...

Three USNA grads, a plebe, and a baby girl at St. Andrew's Chapel this past Sunday (10-13-2013)! For me, a first-time Nana, this is way beyond the "Good News" category... can't come close to putting this in any category even invented!!! :smile: My Marine Captain daughter, my Navy Lt...

An hour and 20 minutes into my drive home yesterday (only another 10 minutes to go), my cell phone rang!! It was DC (Dear Child) #4 – our USNA plebe making that first Plebe Summer phone call!! :yay: I was driving back from the Ohio airport after just having dropped off DC #3 so he could...

It is morning here on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and I am looking out my daughter's front window at the bay which is just past the swaying palm trees in her front yard. I have been given a gift of a weeklong visit to help her out before the baby arrives (her husband is away on a short...

My question is for any former Foundation preps/families - What time of day was the "Foundation Reception" event held on your Day before I-Day? The most current info we have on the Foundation Reception is from a letter sent in January from Ed Wallace, Foundation Director: 26 June 2013...

Son's BFE arrived today - in his mail slot at NMMI (he's a Foundation Prep out there)!!! Happy Day in Roswell and here at home!!! :shake:

Just received this message from DD …”still waiting in Atlanta. Baby is anxious to visit her 4th country in 5 months. She’s dancing up a storm. :smile:” My daughter, mother-to-be of the dancing baby, is a USNA grad, Marine officer, married to USNA grad, SEAL – 5 months pregnant with their...

Appointments to USNA and USMMA are rolling in for the preps at NMMI this week! DS is 1 of 5 USNA Foundation preps at NMMI who received official word of their appointments so far this week and just today official word came in to 4 of the Merchant Marine preps out there in Roswell...

DS is a sponsored Foundation prep at NMMI in Roswell, New Mexico. I read in a recent Forum post that the USNA Foundation preps' files went before the Academy Admissions Board last Thursday, April 11. And today...April 15, our Congressman (OH 1) who nominated DS to USNA called him in New Mexico...

On a very personal and specific level – these budget cuts could spell a lot of devastation for this family. Fact: 5/9 of my immediate family (actually 6/10 – Marine daughter married to Navy SEAL are parents-to-be) are tied to the military and so this is weighing heavily on the 6, and the...

DS, current USNA Foundation prep student, has secured a nomination from his Congressman. Do any of you know how this affects that Congressman’s unranked slate – eg. If there is only one open spot for this MOC at USNA and the prep student receives the appointment (notification is usually...

DS, USNA Foundation Scholarship prep cadet at NMMI, received MOC nomination today!!! OH – 1st District! This news on the heels of the impromptu snow ball free-for-all when the snow fell last night in the desert on the barracks in Roswell, New Mexico! Good fun! :shake:

Just found out DS received a text message from Senator X’s office notifying him that he had been granted a nomination interview – by phone – since DS is out of state at his USNA Foundation prep school. This same senator granted him an interview last year when he was applying to USNA as a high...

With DS at NMMI, this news story caught my eye in this morning’s paper. “Fearless Felix” Baumgartner plans to break the sound barrier SKYDIVING at 690 mph next Monday over the desert near Roswell, New Mexico – wonder if the NMMI cadets out for PT might be eye (and ear?!) witnesses to this...

I need suggestions! :shake: I’m a non-military Mom to several military children one of whom is DD, oldest of the military ones, a USNA ’09 grad, Marine Lt., who will be visiting home here in southern Ohio this coming weekend - one last time before reporting to her new duty station in Hawaii...

About 12 hours left now before the road trip commences! DH, DS #s 5 & 6, and I are taking DS #4 to NMMI to see him off as he begins his 1 year as a USNA Foundation sponsored prep. Cincinnati to Roswell, NM here we come! No matter how many times we parents have made an I-Day (USNA in 2005)...

In today's mail (21 July 2012) was an envelope from DS with 5 brief to VERY brief handwritten notes, including his address!!! He is in the 2nd increment PLC in Quantico - arrival there 8 July 2012. The most recently written note talks a little about some "sleep deprivation," PT at 0530, and...

Yesterday DS received a completely unexpected letter from the AROTC battalion in the in state school at which he was offered a 3 year AD scholarship back in April! Yesterday's letter says, "You have been selected to receive a 1-year In-State Tuition Only Scholarship effective Autumn Semester...

Let me first say that although I’ve labeled this a “dilemma” – it is a very good dilemma and we, DS and his whole family, are so over-the-top grateful…not to mention honored and excited! So here it is: April 10, 2012 - DS was awarded a 3 year AROTC scholarship with an accept/decline date of...