Branch night C/O 23

[loyal1912]

 

[Bigrod]

Congratulations class, I hope everyone received their first choice.

 

[TNElvis]

DS 2023 received his first choice- Queen of Battle, Infantry.

Time has flown by since adding his name to the self-updating appointment list nearly 4 years ago. Best wishes to all our academies 2023 grads.

 

[prospective2019]

I am branching Aviation, my #1 choice!

Noticed I've now been on this forum for five years. Wack. Time flies.

 

[Overwhelmed]

On the opposite end of the spectrum, my son's AROTC unit hosted a branching ceremony for their 7 seniors.
It was a great event attended by family and friends.

He is branching Engineers with an Infantry detail his #1 choice.

 

[loyal1912]

surprised theres no flickr photo album of this from Thursday evening

 

[cb7893]

He is branching Engineers with an Infantry detail his #1 choice.

Sapper - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I've always been fascinated by these guys, especially their very broad skillset.

Mrs. cb7893's uncle was a Sapper during WWII. He disarmed unexploded German bombs in London during the Blitz.

Best of luck to your DS!

 

[NesherVII]

Does anyone happen to know the Branch breakdown? How many WP cadets received which or each Branch? Any solid numbers?

 

[SA-parent]

Does anyone happen to know the Branch breakdown? How many WP cadets received which or each Branch? Any solid numbers?

These are the numbers I saw on Instagram - published by Army.

Air Defense Artillery: 53
Adjutant General: 16
Armor: 92
Aviation: 88
Chemical Corps: 8
Cyber: 40
Engineers: 122
Field Artillery: 146
Finance Corps: 6
Infantry: 185
Military Intelligence: 61
Military Police: 10
Medical Service: 21
Ordnance/EOD: 13/12
Quarter Master: 16
Signal Corps: 38
Transportation Corps: 18

Total: 944

Class size seems small.

 

[prospective2019]

These are the numbers I saw on Instagram - published by Army.

Class size seems small.

That's what happens when your class has a cheating scandal and you're locked down in a miserable environment the year before you affirm.

 

[NesherVII]

These are the numbers I saw on Instagram - published by Army.

Air Defense Artillery: 53
Adjutant General: 16
Armor: 92
Aviation: 88
Chemical Corps: 8
Cyber: 40
Engineers: 122
Field Artillery: 146
Finance Corps: 6
Infantry: 185
Military Intelligence: 61
Military Police: 10
Medical Service: 21
Ordnance/EOD: 13/12
Quarter Master: 16
Signal Corps: 38
Transportation Corps: 18

Total: 944

Class size seems small.

Thank You!!

 

[loyal1912]

any photos for the event, except on instagram?

 

[BellPepper]

These are the numbers I saw on Instagram - published by Army.

Air Defense Artillery: 53
Adjutant General: 16
Armor: 92
Aviation: 88
Chemical Corps: 8
Cyber: 40
Engineers: 122
Field Artillery: 146
Finance Corps: 6
Infantry: 185
Military Intelligence: 61
Military Police: 10
Medical Service: 21
Ordnance/EOD: 13/12
Quarter Master: 16
Signal Corps: 38
Transportation Corps: 18

Total: 944

Class size seems small.

This is what they published but it is not correct. Armor actually had 130. Not sure what other discrepencies there are but the class is still in the comma club.

 

[jkm66]

I heard a reference in Pentagon to "branching debacle/scandal" or something yesterday that seemed to be referring to this branch night. Any idea what that might have been? You always hear stories about cadets getting their last choice, etc. but thought those were pretty isolated.

 

[prospective2019]

I heard a reference in Pentagon to "branching debacle/scandal" or something yesterday that seemed to be referring to this branch night. Any idea what that might have been? You always hear stories about cadets getting their last choice, etc. but thought those were pretty isolated.

I have no statistics on this but there were a lot of unhappy folks this year. They did not release the percentages for # of cadets with top 3/5/10 branch choices like they have in years past.

 

[Walman888]

I heard a reference in Pentagon to "branching debacle/scandal" or something yesterday that seemed to be referring to this branch night. Any idea what that might have been? You always hear stories about cadets getting their last choice, etc. but thought those were pretty isolated.

It got a bit, "Messy" if you will.

 

[Charlie W]

AOG has data on preferences, though they're saying 1,026 for class size and still seem to have the wrong number for Armor, per BellPepper. Other numbers are different from the ones the Army posted as well.

Last year they also gave different numbers from the ones posted to westpoint.edu.

 

[dddad]

AOG has data on preferences, though they're saying 1,026 for class size and still seem to have the wrong number for Armor, per BellPepper. Other numbers are different from the ones the Army posted as well.

Last year they also gave different numbers from the ones posted to westpoint.edu.

After reading your post, I took a look at the AOG website. It doesn't actually show Class of 2023 branching information (yet). It does show that the Class of 2022 branched 1,026.

Regardless, a bad look if the branching preferences of cadets were ignored in greater numbers than is typical. Hopefully, the branching decisions look better with a little time and distance. Needs of the Army must not have aligned with preferences this year if the "unhappy" cadets descriptions are correct - which I don't doubt.

 

[UHBlackhawk]

I am branching Aviation, my #1 choice!

Noticed I've now been on this forum for five years. Wack. Time flies.

 

[Walman888]

It got a bit, "Messy" if you will.

"Messy" in the beginning with a good outcome in one case at least.