Class of 2024 Hopeful

[sanman]

No real questions in this post just comment on our experience so far.

My son has wanted to be in the Coast Guard since the age of 3. We are originally from the UK and only moved to the US in 2011. Anyway when he was 3 we were at a coastal town on holiday in the UK and watched the English Coast Guard practice cliff rescues using a helicopter and winchman. My son said to my wife and I 'That's what I want to do when I grow up!'. When asked whether he wanted to fly the helicopter or be the person lowered on the winch he replied 'Both!'.

He has never deviated from wanting to serve and when we moved to the US his desire to join the Coast Guard increased. Although now he would be happy to serve in any capacity he is just very drawn to the Coast Guard service due to its mandate of humanitarian, search and rescue, border protection, environmental protection etc.

Last year we attended the academy on an admissions visit and combined that with watching a football game and talking to Coach George as my son is a very good football player. He also made sure that he was in regular correspondence with both his Recruitment Officer and Football coaches.

This year whilst doing other college visits in the area (Plan B) we once again called into the academy and talked to his recruitment officer and football coach.

My son applied for AIM and has been accepted. He has been contacted by his recruitment partner who has provided really good advice.

The real point of this post is just to say thank you to the recruitment officer, football coach, and recruitment partner. They have provided excellent advice to my son, they have always tried to accommodate his requests to talk and have been enormously supportive.

Here is hoping that his dream becomes a reality next year!

 

[CalifStrongDad]

No real questions in this post just comment on our experience so far.

My son has wanted to be in the Coast Guard since the age of 3. We are originally from the UK and only moved to the US in 2011. Anyway when he was 3 we were at a coastal town on holiday in the UK and watched the English Coast Guard practice cliff rescues using a helicopter and winchman. My son said to my wife and I 'That's what I want to do when I grow up!'. When asked whether he wanted to fly the helicopter or be the person lowered on the winch he replied 'Both!'.

He has never deviated from wanting to serve and when we moved to the US his desire to join the Coast Guard increased. Although now he would be happy to serve in any capacity he is just very drawn to the Coast Guard service due to its mandate of humanitarian, search and rescue, border protection, environmental protection etc.

Last year we attended the academy on an admissions visit and combined that with watching a football game and talking to Coach George as my son is a very good football player. He also made sure that he was in regular correspondence with both his Recruitment Officer and Football coaches.

This year whilst doing other college visits in the area (Plan B) we once again called into the academy and talked to his recruitment officer and football coach.

My son applied for AIM and has been accepted. He has been contacted by his recruitment partner who has provided really good advice.

The real point of this post is just to say thank you to the recruitment officer, football coach, and recruitment partner. They have provided excellent advice to my son, they have always tried to accommodate his requests to talk and have been enormously supportive.

Here is hoping that his dream becomes a reality next year!

Sounds a lot like my DS. Who fell in love with Annapolis, was nominated his Sr year to US Marchant Marine Academy and was a recruited athlete and will be a NTROC Midn this fall. It a long journey and there are lots of pitfalls. We are thankful that so many people impressed upon him to have a Plan B, not to doubt your DS is strong enough to get to USCGA, but to make sure he has options in case something beyond his control happens. At the time I took it the wrong way when he was told have a back up plan like people were doubting his abilities and was kind of offended that people were looking at him and doubting him. We were visiting the Pentagon and a high ranking officer told him you better have a back up plan in case USNA doesn’t work out .

I have learned that the advice wasn’t that they doubted him, it’s they saw a future leader in the Fleet and they were telling us there are lots of ways to serve and become an officer and SA are just one. Thank goodness we took that advice because we are in Plan C and he couldn’t be happier to start school this fall.

 

[sanman]

Sounds a lot like my DS. Who fell in love with Annapolis, was nominated his Sr year to US Marchant Marine Academy and was a recruited athlete and will be a NTROC Midn this fall. It a long journey and there are lots of pitfalls. We are thankful that so many people impressed upon him to have a Plan B, not to doubt your DS is strong enough to get to USCGA, but to make sure he has options in case something beyond his control happens. At the time I took it the wrong way when he was told have a back up plan like people were doubting his abilities and was kind of offended that people were looking at him and doubting him. We were visiting the Pentagon and a high ranking officer told him you better have a back up plan in case USNA doesn’t work out .

I have learned that the advice wasn’t that they doubted him, it’s they saw a future leader in the Fleet and they were telling us there are lots of ways to serve and become an officer and SA are just one. Thank goodness we took that advice because we are in Plan C and he couldn’t be happier to start school this fall.

Yes we have impressed upon him that he must have a backup plan and a backup plan to the backup plan! He knows how difficult it is to get into the academy but is still hopeful.