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    USMMA vs USNA

    As many have already previously stated, there may be opportunities to commission into another service upon graduating from Kings Point, but that service has to have a need to fill and a desire to want you. If your only goal upon graduation from Kings Point is to be a USMC officer, then I...
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    What MOS did you choose?

    And if you really want to muddy the Navy waters you have to look deeper than just the Designator. There are also Naval Officer Billet Classification (NOBC) and Additional Qualification Designators (AQD). In my case: Designator - 2300 (Medical Service Corps) NOBC - 0866 (Medical...
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    Debt-to-Income Ratio for Sea Duty?

    Overseas duty is not the same as shipboard duty. As far as the DTI ratio being used as a factor in deciding if a sailor is eligible for overseas duty, the process isn't as formal as the OPNAV makes it sound. I've have had sailors arrive at my command with severe debt problems that were not...
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    Graduation Week

    1. 2014 reports on 6/18 and walks on 6/21. Do they spend those three nights in the barracks? Our DD was staff, so she was still pretty busy as change of command hadn't happened yet. As far as I know everyone is still required to stay in the barracks. 2. Is there a limit to the number of...
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    CONUS Commissaries to Close

    I've honestly never found the commissary to be that great of a deal except when living overseas. I'll base this on my 30 plus years of active duty and currently retired. It always seems to me that whenever I give in to the temptation of buying fruits and vegetables from the commissary, I...
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    Dining in

    Let's not forget the person who has the hardest job at any Dining In/Dining Out; Mr Vice. A job that I have had to perform in the past. One Dining Out was held during a period that we were turning over Executive Officers, so I referred to them as XO and Ex-XO; then to the room's delight I told...
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    Playing Basketball at KP

    For some of the students (and I know this applied to my DD), participating in a sport helped to break up the monotony of day in and day out studying. She was on the swim team all 4 years and always seemed to do better academically when they were in season. I have noticed that some athletes...
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    Ring Dance Tickets

    Hey KP13Mom, you mentioned that your DS took his fiance to the ring dance. Did he mention any advice, hints, recommendations, etc. for keeping a relationship going while at KP? Particularly during the difficult sea year period.
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    Dodmerb---really?

    Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but budget constraints might have changed the requirement to go to Wright-Pat. All of my DD friends that went rated were on their way to WPAFB for their physicals until somebody decided it was easier to let them drive themselves to McGuire in New Jersey. Now...
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    Medical Concern

    Yup. I had to Duck Walk in the 80's during a MEPS physical. Didn't have to do it for a commissioning physical though. If the Military Channel ever shows the movie The Outsider; Tony Curtis as Ira Hayes (flag raiser at Iwo Jima), I'm pretty sure they had him doing the Duck Walk during the...
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    What happened to the "Sea Chicken" pin on the 2013 Graduates?

    30 years in the Active Duty Navy and even I'm surprised about the stupidity of this change. LCDR Cassano's e-mail specifically mentions that this policy is routing for signature. Which means that it isn't even in effect yet. So based on the current "In-Date" instruction, every Kings Pointer...
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    What happened to the "Sea Chicken" pin on the 2013 Graduates?

    Reading through the OPNAV instruction referenced by Engineman02, there are two things to note. - By graduating from Kings Point you are automatically qualified to wear the Strategic Sealift Officer Warfare Insignia (SSOWI). - The Merchant Marine Naval Reserve insignia (Sea Chicken)...
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    License

    Not quite the same statistics being posted by KP vs Massachusetts Maritime. KP13 was talking about those students who went 7 for 7. Massachusetts Maritime is posting modules passed. As noted in earlier posts unless you pass all 7 modules you don't receive your license. Massachusetts...
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    Speeding ticket - freaking out

    It's possible that the dollar amount is related to the TS Clearance paperwork. When I had my last TS Clearance (5 years ago), you had to report all traffic violations with a fine of $200 or more. I distinctly remember that question because I misread the question as greater than $200 and it...
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    Auto Transport Info

    Has your daughter checked to see if she can bring her vintage 1970 Volkswagen to her overseas assignment? Some of the countries I've been assigned to over the years don't allow cars greater than 10 years old. A 40 plus year old car may be banned (i.e. environmental, pollution control, etc.)...
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    Sea-Year

    I think the number of ships during sea year isn't a set number. My DD and her sea partner (same person for both sea terms), were on 4 separate ships. Time varied from just under a month to 4 months per ship. They were insistent with their ATR with what they wanted and wouldn't take no for an...
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    disenrolled 22 days before graduation

    Worst thing about the bill is that it can arrive many years later. The government gives themselves 7 years (I believe) to decide on if you are going to pay anything back. Look what happened to this poster. http://www.serviceacademyforums.com/showthread.php?t=20892&highlight=west+point+bill
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    LET 2013 RING!!!!! KP Parents, Alumni and All Concerned Please Read

    Haha! Not gonna have a chance for that conversation for another 6 weeks (actually probably not until after license exams are over). With it being the last trimester before graduation and license preps going on right now, I've basically been told not to "leave me alone and not bother me" until...
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    LET 2013 RING!!!!! KP Parents, Alumni and All Concerned Please Read

    Nope. Spent more time on the ground with the Marine Corps than anything else. Maybe that's why things seem more black and white to me. The Marines have a rigid chain of command that is pretty inflexible.
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    LET 2013 RING!!!!! KP Parents, Alumni and All Concerned Please Read

    A long and prestigious list of successful KP graduates; and probably an abbreviated one at that. Besides being included in the brotherhood of pranksters, etc. what do all of these alums have in common? The fact that all of their antics, pranks, etc. occurred long before the electronic...
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