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Is there any reason to be in Annapolis and get on the Yard the Thursday of PPW? This years PPW is Thurs Aug 11 to Sunday Aug 14 and looking at last years schedule, liberty began on the Friday at 1300. So what happens on the Thursday? All of this is because I'm trying to make hotel / travel...

Under what circumstance would a MIDN choose life insurance? DS doesn't have any dependents and I'm not in need of any benefit should he die. So I'm advising him to skip it. Am I missing some nuance here?

If you sit for a Validation test during Plebe summer and pass, do you have to accept the validation or can you choose to take the class anyway? Reason I ask is that DS is pretty decent at Chemistry, but never had a Chemistry lab due to COVID and his HS Junior year being remote. So I am...

This has probably been discussed before, but the Forum search doesn't allow a search for "529". :mad: How have folks handled 529 money they had saved when their child decided to attend a SA? I've heard you can use some of the money to pay for initial expenses (uniforms, computer, etc.). I'm...

My DS has been DQ'd on concussion with symptoms > 1 month (he was 11 at the time of the incident). Does anyone know if USNA regularly waivers this condition? This isn't a DoDMERB process question, we are aware of the process and know that we just need to wait on Navy to invoke the waiver...

I've been lurking for a while, and I've read several places that LOAs are not given out much (described as "unicorns" 🦄). I went back and looked at the c/o 2025 self maintained appt thread and of the 165 appointments, 75 had LOAs. Assuming that data is representative of the full picture, that...