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  1. Capt MJ

    New USNA Superintendent 2024

    Courtesy of USNA Alumni Assn
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    Income Tax (State) Update For Military Retirees (and non-retirees too) - Jan 2023

    See link below with MOAA (using Military.com) summary of new changes to various state laws, plus with a link embedded for a state-by-state summary. MD is inching toward 100% exemption of military retiree income from state income tax. Yay...
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    Hangout: USNA Induction Day / I-Day Class of 2028: Thursday 27 June 2024

    Created this as a place for appointees (Plebes To Be, P2B) and their parents to come with the inevitable questions that pop up every year. Note NAPSters report in the day before I-Day to complete their transition. Some handy links: The USNA calendars: https://www.usna.edu/PAO/calendars.php...
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    No Agenda Here/Something Struck Me/What Do You Think of this VMI Ad?

    See the screenshot below. Now look at the paragraph near the bottom. I saw this in some random feed on various things I follow online to stay current on military-veteran topics. As noted in the thread title, I have no agenda, and I have great respect for the SMCs, just wishing I had a magic...
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    2024 Rhodes Scholars

    Nice to see USMA, USNA, USAFA cadets and midshipman. https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/media/47889/winners_list_2023.pdf Pro Tip: Kerp the link handy if you need to educate someone who is “sad your kid didn’t get into college.” The SAs keep company with some decent schools.
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    Helo Crash in the Med - 5 Souls Lost

    Not a lot of detail yet - family notifications likely still being confirmed and press releases coordinated. My heart breaks for the families and the people in their unit(s). I used the old-school “souls” reference. It always humanizes the loss for me...
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    248th Navy Birthday Coming Up on 13 Oct 2023

    Some fun stuff going on: https://www.youtube.com/live/DkMEilGmWZU?si=blDsGBVGsZEc-Q63 https://www.usna.edu/PAO/events/2023/10/248th_Birthday_of_the_U.S._Navy.php
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    Coast Guard: Session on Maritime Strategy with ADM Linda Fagan, 17 Oct 2023

    https://www.csis.org/events/us-coast-guard-era-great-power-competition-adm-linda-l-fagan
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    USNR Officer 3-Year AD Recall Opportunity as USNA Military Instructor

    Posted for general info for active USNR officer readers. https://www.usna.edu/ReserveRecall/index.php
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    Best Practices & Tips: Getting Through DoDMERB Process

    This is a thread for those who have “learned a thing or two” to share what worked for them to successfully move through the DoDMERB process, whether the initial filling out the medical history to getting through remedials and the waiver process and anything in between. In a recent post I added...
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    Never Forget. 9/11

    My last two pins, image below. I have exchanged pins with other survivors and first responders at various 9/11 remembrance ceremonies over the 20+ years since. 0937. The Pentagon, E-Ring, Director Navy Staff’s office close to the “point” where the corridor turned to the adjacent face, where...
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    USNA Music Dept Season 2023-2024 Tix Sales Opened Today 9/5 - Scored Halloween Concert Tix

    Good morning - if you are at all thinking about coming to the Halloween concert - do it at least once - these tix always sell out. I fully admit I jumped on at 0901, got the tix then came here to post. Typical ticket site hosted by a vendor. Create a profile and login, purchase tickets, pay...
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    Parents Visiting Plebes/Mids - Adjustments & Independence

    Bringing this up as a general topic for awareness and a transition conversation for family discussions as sons and daughters settle into independent USNA life and prepare to launch in a few years on their career, and parents do their own adjusting to family patterns. Over the years we have...
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    USNA Class of 2028 Offers of Appointment Self-Updating List (Posters copy, paste, update with their entry)

    It’s September, so the first drip of OFFERS OF APPOINTMENT will not be long in coming. Let’s have another great season of sharing good news, to note the flow of offers and spot trends in nom categories. Whether or not these posters decide to accept their offers, they are worthy of a nod of...
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    Marine Aviation Training Accidents/Osprey, Hornet

    My heart is sad. Fair winds and following seas to those who lose their lives in the line of duty. It doesn’t matter to me I didn’t know them - the veterans on this board I suspect have all been close to a training accident with fatal results. You do not forget...
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    Shopping Alert for Alums, Parents, Fans

    I just got back from Sam’s Club Annapolis (emergency run, the Bacon Low Light had come on in the reefer, 😱and they have 4 lbs of Wright’s for $12), and I saw the usual one-season-ahead merchandise being set out by stockers. Pallets of USNA and UMD NCAA-authorized hoodies, shorts, etc., but...
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    Haiku Advice Challenge for I-Day & Plebe Summer 2023

    I don’t believe we have ever featured the phrase “Haiku Advice Challenge” in a SAF thread title. And I have no idea why it poppped into my head to do this. I invite you to boil down your I-Day and Plebe Summer advice for the plebes-to-be into the haiku poem format below. This is the most basic...
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    “The Fall” on PBS - good stuff - others to recommend?

    I noticed PBS broadcast was starting S1Epi1 tonight of “The Fall,” a most satisfying police homicide series set in the UK, with a story arc covering the entire season. Gillian Anderson excels as the high-powered lead investigator. Satisfying action as well as dark psychology swirled in. The...
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    Memorial Day 2023

    I find it hard to say “Happy Memorial Day,” but I can post the gentle Broadside cartoon below and appreciate how we don’t forget. Shouldn’t forget. Won’t forget.
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    Share Your Current Top Two Go-To Quotes That Inform Your Choices

    Adapted from Lao-Tzu, this is one of my favorite leadership quotes, which has informed my commitment to servant leadership over the years: "Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. Of a good leader, when his (her!) (their!) work is done, who talks little, her aims fulfilled, they...
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