USMA: Soldier Admission Program

Are you talking about getting an admission through the National Guard? If so, I have been accepted through that route, if you'd like to know more.
 
I had an LOA, so with the commander's nomination it was a relatively simple way of getting admitted. Just be warned that if you do not make it through the soldier admissions program, you will have to serve another year enlisted until you re-apply and get accepted. Make sure that you actually want to serve that route if USMA doesn't work out for you.
 
I'm not sure if OP is already enlisted, but just incase I want to let him and any lurkers know that the Guard has more hurdles in place to get into a service academy compared to active duty and the reserves; you belong to your state just as much as you do to the federal government. You have to be conditionally release into the IRR and anyone in your CoC can just say no.

Still waiting for my state's blessing and it has been a minute. If you are going to enlist for the purpose of getting entry into USMA go to active duty, and it doesn't have to be the Army either.
 
Yes; getting through that process was pretty painless. It's everything that comes after that hurts.
 
If you are a soldier with an appointment to USMA, or any service academy for that matter, and are facing obstacles from your COC please be proactive. I’m assuming with the following that you have no UCMJ or other major issues.
First, obviously use your COC to include open door policies of the officers up through the state AG if necessary if you are in the National Guard.
Next you can contact USMA to see if they can help.
Finally, contact your congressperson/senator, even if you don’t have a congressional nomination.
I personally know of two cases where superiors thought they could mess with a service member with a SA appointment. In both cases the SA took action through the COC and to say a crap storm rained down would be an understatement. In one case when the sailor did not show up on I-Day they contacted the sailor. When the sailor responded that the COC would not let them leave it was fixed immediately. They were late, but they got to attend the SA.
In the other case a soldier was not being permitted to out process and contacted USMA for help a week prior to R-Day. Suddenly an E-8 appeared in the soldier’s barracks to personally escort the soldier and in one day they outprocessed.
 
UHBlackhawk said:
If you are a soldier with an appointment to USMA, or any service academy for that matter, and are facing obstacles from your COC please be proactive. I’m assuming with the following that you have no UCMJ or other major issues.
First, obviously use your COC to include open door policies of the officers up through the state AG if necessary if you are in the National Guard.
Next you can contact USMA to see if they can help.
Finally, contact your congressperson/senator, even if you don’t have a congressional nomination.
I personally know of two cases where superiors thought they could mess with a service member with a SA appointment. In both cases the SA took action through the COC and to say a crap storm rained down would be an understatement. In one case when the sailor did not show up on I-Day they contacted the sailor. When the sailor responded that the COC would not let them leave it was fixed immediately. They were late, but they got to attend the SA.
In the other case a soldier was not being permitted to out process and contacted USMA for help a week prior to R-Day. Suddenly an E-8 appeared in the soldier’s barracks to personally escort the soldier and in one day they outprocessed.
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This ^. I always make sure there is a paper trail and cc my leadership when sending emails; especially pertaining to USMA.

When my NCO channel tried to put me under investigation with Military Intelligence for "forging" my conditional release memo FROM admissions the confusion was diffused real quick after I went up the CoC with said emails. My sergeant didn't even knew what a .edu domain was and treated the candidate portal like a ticking time bomb of a scam site...

Needless to say I'll show up to R-day with no issues.
 
68W said:
This ^. I always make sure there is a paper trail and cc my leadership when sending emails; especially pertaining to USMA.

When my NCO channel tried to put me under investigation with Military Intelligence for "forging" my conditional release memo FROM admissions the confusion was diffused real quick after I went up the CoC with said emails. My sergeant didn't even knew what a .edu domain was and treated the candidate portal like a ticking time bomb of a scam site...

Needless to say I'll show up to R-day with no issues.
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That can be one of the problems- NCOs who aren’t on the same sheet of music as their officers.
In the second case above the soldier was on a combat deployment and came back early for R-Day since it’s considered an ETS. The command had set up some “hoah” stuff for the soldier prior to R-Day.
Well, the rear detachment command had other plans and the soldier was instead put on permanent details and was not permitted to out process. The soldier ended up having less than a week from final out processing to R-Day.
 
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